Ce que lutter veut dire ? Lamb, bëre et monde de vie au Sénégal

Chevé, Dominique; Wane, Cheikh Tidiane

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“…However, it is also a world inhabited by promoters, institutions, marabouts or spiritual guides, musicians and dancers, singers, griots who have become sports journalists, journalists, fan clubs, and various other actors. In Senegal, wrestling is a social and community matter, but it is also highly individualized (Chevé et al, 2014;Chevé and Wane, 2018;Marie, 2008).…”

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“…While on the surface, wrestling seems to be far removed from the post-industrial settings usually associated with neoliberal work, there are parallels in the precarious nature of their labor, the flexibility required, and the agentive and creative ways in which they represent themselves in order to succeed. They become an embodiment of Foucault's "entrepreneur of the self" (Foucault, 2008), investing heavily in their own bodies and their own identitiesessentially understanding themselves as businesses (Chevé, 2014;Chevé and Wane, 2018;Gershon, 2014). For most wrestlers, their sporting activities are insufficient in terms of making a living.…”

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“…Wrestlers often progress from wrestling without punches to wrestling with punches, but some fighters practice both. In contemporary Dakar, wrestling with punches appeals to a larger number of athletes, who yearn for sporting success and considerable economic and political rewards (see for example Chevé et al, 2012;Chevé et al, 2014;Chevé and Wane, 2018;Hann, 2018;Kane and Wane, 2014).…”

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“Tying your ngemb”: Negotiating identity in Senegalese wrestling

Hann¹,

Chevé²,

Wane

2021

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More than merely a combat sport, Senegalese wrestling combines professional athleticism with cultural traditions, political relations, and religious belief. For many young men in Senegal, wrestling also represents a model of success in otherwise challenging circumstances characterized by socio-economic crisis and increasing precarity. Young wrestlers must navigate and perform an elaborate set of identities in order to demonstrate their success—both within the sand-filled arenas in which fights take place, and in the complex social worlds which have emerged around the practice. Referring to a panoply of identity markers including ethnicity, religious affiliation, and village or neighborhood loyalty, wrestlers simultaneously demonstrate their alignment with dominant discourses around masculinity and urban knowledge. The article draws upon lengthy ethnographic research to explore the dynamic, contradictory, and hybrid processes of identity construction through which wrestlers present themselves to the world.

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“Tying your ngemb”: Negotiating identity in Senegalese wrestling

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Wane

2021

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“…Thus, the implementation of national public policies cannot fail to take into consideration the realities experienced by these populations. Moreover, while the total population of sub-Saharan Africa has tripled since the 1960s, the population living in cities has increased tenfold [ 5 ], thus demonstrating the attractiveness of an urban "lifeworld" [ 6 , 7 ] for rural populations. A comparative analysis of the well-being of these two populations should make it possible to better understand the reasons for the sub-Saharan rural exodus.…”

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The good life in rural and urban Senegal: A qualitative and quantitative study

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Very few studies have analyzed the influence of the environment, rural or urban, on the notion of good life and subjective well-being in sub-Saharan Africa and none, to our knowledge, has combined qualitative and quantitative methodologies for this purpose. The objectives of this interdisciplinary study were: a) to understand the emic representations of the good life in rural and urban Senegal and; b) to compare the levels and determinants of satisfaction with life between these two populations. This study was carried out in Dakar and in a very isolated rural area in the North East of Senegal: the sylvo-pastoral zone of Ferlo. A total of six focus groups were conducted for the qualitative phase, while the quantitative phase was conducted on representative samples of the populations living in Dakar (N = 1000) and Téssékéré (N = 500). Our results indicate that, against all expectations, life satisfaction is better in the Senegalese Ferlo than in the capital, Dakar. This difference may be the joint result of less meaningful social comparisons and a relationship with nature as a source of stress restoration in rural areas. However, the lifeworld of the rural Fulani of the Ferlo is being undermined by global climatic disturbances, which imposes rapid adaptations of pastoralism; otherwise this activity, that is not only subsistence but also identity-based, may disappear.

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“… 3 3 The popularity of Làmb in urban centers has led some local people to look down on their own traditional forms, which they perceive as an arcane pastime, appropriate only for narrow‐minded and uneducated people. Làmb , in contrast, is viewed as a “real” sport (Chevé & Wane, 2018) and a respected profession. Mbapat tournaments are still very popular across the country, and an annual three‐day tournament is organized each year by the prime minister of Senegal, but Mbapat has not received as much institutional support or private investment as Làmb and is therefore not a viable professional career. …”

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Sunu Coosan: Creating “our tradition” in Senegalese wrestling songs

Brody

2023

J Linguistic Anthropol

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This article explores the term “sunu coosan” as a Senegalese trope of self‐articulation and as a semiotic strategy in contemporary discourses surrounding nationhood. The term, meaning "our tradition" in Wolof, is used by professionals as well as lay people in their promotion of the national sport, Làmb wrestling. By examining this phrase within the broad repertoire of Senegalese wrestling songs, I show that the musical commentary performed in the sport of Làmb situates it within a narrative of traditional continuity, subsequently producing a modern tradition for the consumption of the Senegalese nation. I argue that this collection of songs is a performative embodiment of a modern state's struggle to form its national identity. In Senegal's national wrestling arenas, ongoing lyrical engagement with the themes of history, heritage, and morality in genre‐specific, stylized formats, makes these songs the site of both ‘traditional discourse’ and a ‘discourse about tradition’. In this article, I explore three central features of Làmb songs: the use of poetic personas; "out of time narration"; and the recitation of praise poetry. By implementing these stylistic techniques inside and outside of the arena, local musicians continually create a meta‐discourse about the meaning of tradition.

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Ce que lutter veut dire ? Lamb, bëre et monde de vie au Sénégal

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

“Tying your ngemb”: Negotiating identity in Senegalese wrestling

“Tying your ngemb”: Negotiating identity in Senegalese wrestling

The good life in rural and urban Senegal: A qualitative and quantitative study

Sunu Coosan: Creating “our tradition” in Senegalese wrestling songs

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