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Changements politiques et innovations rituelles/cérémonielles chez les Abisi (Piti) et les Rukuha, Nigeria

This article describes the innovation brought about by an external political power in the traditional cycle of ceremonies of the Abisi and the Rukuba of Central Nigeria.The Abisi which were subdued last century by the Hausa, devised in reaction to this an elaborated ritual aiming at making a scape-goat of the mediator they had to choose in order to deal with the foreign power. Nowadays civil servants of the Nigerian Government are trying in both populations to persuade the people to participate in new pageantries or even to divert traditional ceremonies from their original meaning for the purp…