Zarma



ETHNONYMS: Djerma, Djermis, Dyabarma, Dyarma, Dyerma, Zabarmas, Zabermas, Zabirmawa, Zabramas, Zabrima, Zerma


Settlements

Zarma villages are typically nucleated settlements made up of round mud or thatched dwellings with straw roofs and and also of occasional rectangular houses built of dried-mud bricks.


Kinship

The patrilineage and lineage segments are the most significant kinship groupings. Descent is patrilineal. Iroquois cousin terminology, with bifurcate-merging terms, is used.


See also Songhay


Bibliography

Diarra, Fatoumata-Agnes (1971). Les femmes zarma du Niger. Femmes Africaines en Devenir. Paris: Éditions Anthropos.


Greenberg, Joseph H. (1963). The Languages of Africa. Indiana University Research Center in Anthropology, Folklore, and Linguistics, Publication no. 25. The Hague: Mouton.

Olivier de Sardan, Jean-Pierre (1982). Concepts et conceptions songhay-zarma: Histoire, culture, société. Paris: Nubia.


Olivier de Sardan, Jean-Pierre (1984). Les sociétés songhayzarma (Niger-Mali). Paris: Karthala.


Painter, Thomas M. (In preparation). "The Political Economy of Social Change and Peasant Response in West Africa: The Zarma of Niger, 1875 to 1985."


Rothiot, Jean-Paul (1984). "Zarmakoy Aouta: Les débuts de la domination coloniale dans le cercle de Dosso, 1898-1913." Thèse de dotorat de 3e cycle, Université de Paris VII.


Stoller, Paul (1989). Fusion of the Worlds: An Ethnography of Possession among the Songhay. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.


Tersis-Surugue, Nicole (1981). Économie d'un système: Unités et relations syntaxiques en Zarma (Niger). Bibliothèque de la SELAF, 87-88. Paris: Société d'Études Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France/ACCT.

THOMAS M. PAINTER

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