Town-village links and social changes in light of seasonal migration. The movement of people between Songho (the dogon region) and Bamako Mali

This work focuses on the circulating mobility of men and women for twenty years between the villages of Songho and Bamako (Republic of Mali). The data were collected during the fieldwork carried out between 2001 and 2007. I conducted interviews and participated in religious, life cycle, and healing rituals in Songho as well as in Bamako, and I observed the activities of affinity groups. There are differences between ages and gender as well as a redefinition of the space of membership which is another form of moving territorialisation. Reprinted by permission of Anthropos Institut