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Publication details [#30159]

Schottman, Wendy. 1995. The daily ritual of greeting among the Baatombu of Benin. Anthropological Linguistics 37 (4) : 487–523.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

greeting | language and culture | ritual | role-playing | social status

Language as a subject

Baatonum

Place, Publisher

Indiana University

ISBN

0003-5483

Annotation

This paper examines the Baatombu greeting ritual for aspects of the social structure and cultural values that might explain why the Baatombu, in contrast to other African societies, allot the verbally active role to the person of superior status.