Genèse et dynamique de la royauté
Subtitle: les Mosi méridionaux, Burkina Faso
By: Junzo Kawada
Series: Collection Etudes africaines; Etudes africaines (Harmattan (Firm))
Publisher: Harmattan
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre; eng
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: Mossi (African people); History; Kings and rulers; Genealogy; Politics and government
Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (Université Paris V (Sorbonne), 1971) submitted under the title: Genèse et évolution du système politique des Mosi méridionaux (Haute-Volta).

Includes five essays written after the 1971 thesis.

Includes bibliographical references.

Includes one essay in English.
Table of contents: title: Genèse et dynamique de la royauté; title: Segmentation et hiérarchie (1977); title: Le panégyrique royal tambouriné moisi (1981); title: Histoire orale et imaginaire du passé (1993); title: Historicité et subjectivité (2000); title: Epic and chronicle (2001).