Ontography, Epistemography and Animality: The Paremiological Work in Moroccan Arabic by Finnish Sociologist Edvard Westermarck
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Paremiology. Moroccan arabic. Morocco. Westermarck. AnimalsAbstract
In this article, centered on the book Wit and Wisdom in Morocco: A Study of Native Proverbs, published by Finnish sociologist Edvard Westermarck in 1930, I examine a corpus of animal proverbs. To address a study of local theories about animality, I assess the extent to which the book includes an ontography, a writing about beings, and an epistemography, a writing about native points of view and forms of knowledge. Similarly, we examine the extent to which Westermarck's work includes co-authorship with his main interlocutor in Morocco, Sidi Abdessalam El-Baqqali and other assistants.
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