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Yasmine Marzouk, « Du côté de la Casamance : pouvoirs, espaces et religions. », Cahiers d'Études africaines, ID : 10.3406/cea.1993.1513
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Y. Marzouk — Toward Casamance. Power, Space and Religion. Casamance, a region in southern Senegal, is a zone of contact between two for-merly differentiated peoples about whom many studies were made in the 1970s and published recently. Among these, Olga Linares' book analyzes local power in three villages that represent Jola social heterogeneity. These monographs draw a parallel between processes of agricultural production (rice-farming in flooded pad-dies and rainy season crops) and ideological phenomena : the local religion, Islam and Manding acculturation. The author's original contribution is to show that these variations relate to a single principle of "political economies" : the working out of a village-level consensus so as to better manage labor and land. Given cur-rent research however, doubt can be voiced about the preeminence assigned by this author to Manding culture.