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Adihou, Alain-François. "Coopération et développement agricoles en milieu Aja-Fon (Bénin)." Paris 10, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA100201.
Full textThe co-operative experiments of the Aja-Fon populations (Benin), from 1930 to 1985, have not entailed the agricultural development of this circle. There, the strictly economical attitude is influenced by religious and cultural values. The agricultural development is considered as the modernization of the agriculture and as the transformation of the production's relations. It's necessary to exceed the polemic maintained about this question by they who assert that the collectivization must precede and entail the mechanization (ideological foundation of the co-operation) and they who affirm that only the mechanization can facilitate the assembling of the agricultural producers (technical foundation of the co-operation). The industrial revolution and the change in the production's relations are all necessary. But, a significant growth of the productivity of the agricultural work, then the growth of the production, from the transformation of the social relations on the base of a simple assembling of the peasants and their traditional tools is impossible. With the Fon, the familial and communautary mode of production set the agriculture out to be a big extent's agriculture, that will be the modernization and the mechanization profitable. For that, the institution of the individualism in the agriculture is a regression. Considering the alienation's right in the traditional practices of the right, it is possible to set up another model of development in Africa. The question is no more to follow Jean-Paul Sartre, "the hell is the others”, and to fall back all on the “others”. This way of doing doesn’t open, truly, each specific socio-cultural space on its own development
Hounton, Jean-Baptiste. "Le mythe de Sakpata au Bénin : approches littéraire, sémiotique et sociologique." Paris 4, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040203.
Full textThis study is meant for young Beninese students as well as foreign readers, to help them to imagine the world of African mythology through a particular example. We have studied a cosmogonical myth, which is very well known in the whole region of Beninese coast. Its name is Sakpata: the god of earth. The mythical story: when the world was still in the shape of a gourd and it was not totally created, the creator send one of his ministers named Sakpata to achieve the making of the earth and to rule it. Sakpata founded the famous city of Ile-Ife. When he become very old, his sons deserted him and then he turned himself into a white ant-hill (termitarium) inhabited by a snake. Its meaning: these two elements together,- the white ant-hill and the snake-, go to make the god of earth, who is himself the symbolical representation of the original couple: the man and the woman. This myth constitutes the foundations of the societies and their economical and cultural realities, among the peoples in this area
Tingbe, Albert A. "Le nom individuel chez les Aja-Fon du Bénin : une sociologie de l'anthroponymie." Paris 5, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA05H107.
Full textAgbo, Valentin Akpadji. "Civilisation et agriculture paysannes en pays Adja-Mono (Bénin) : rites, production, réduction des risques et gestion de l'incertitude." Paris 5, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA05H061.
Full textThe uncertainty from unpredictable disasters makes out anguish into adja ethnic group homehold unities. The main points are around the caracteristics of culture which are the agriculture supports : ritual uses to get down rains in breedings. It is an agrarian civilization into which people use indegenous knowledge : the astral and biological sings to elaborate their lunar agriculture calendar to manage with more certainty traditional agriculture risks. To understand peasant approch of risks evasion and uncertainty magement we : - determinate a deficit (gap) or surplus of crops into homehold unities - have a reference marks about uncertainty phenomenons in adja peasant-area. All those datas are explained bottom the theory of organization and power. Each ethnic group about his ecological place and context makes specific strategies to risks evasion and uncertainty management
Kossi, Komi E. "La structure socio-politique et son articulation avec la pensée religieuse chez les Aja-Tado du sud-est Togo /." Stuttgart : F. Steiner, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35521592f.
Full textGLOKPON, KOKOU. "Le culte des jumeaux chez les Adja." Paris 7, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA070041.
Full textAmongst the adja people, twins are considered gods, either of marine origin if they are born paralysed, without arms or blind, or of forest origin if they are born healthy, having been born under the totemic protection of the guardian monke y. This monkey is the object of some very complex purification rites. Throughout the twins'lives, each important phase i s marked by other cultural practices, as well as their funerals
Assaba, Claude. "Modèle éducatif et développement humain chez les Yoruba." Paris 5, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA05H061.
Full textBrand, Roger. "La société Wéménu, son dynamisme, son contrôle : approche ethno-sociologique d'une société du sud Bénin." Paris 5, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA05H027.
Full textThe ethno-sociological study took place in the Ouémé valley, located in south east Benin. The population, whose rate of natural increase is 2,4%, is established in villages bordering on the Ouémé river and in villages bordering on the plateau of Sakete; the southernmost villages live by a lacustrine economy whereas the others have a mixed economy. The history of the wemenu is linked with the migrations of multifamilial groups belonging to the yoruba, aizo, adja-fon and tofinu. The adja-fon imposed their language, their gods, vodun, and refusal to be governed by a centralizing authority. These various groups never formed a homogeneous political unity; however, they created an original society, the wemenu society, where the chiefs of lineage, vodun cults and secret societies compete with one another for influence. Equality between individuals is recognized by the wemenu and is expressed in their submission to prohibitions their choice of sexual partner, the choice of a means of livelihood. All the young people of both sexes, the non-initiated as wells as the initiated into vodun cult, have learned to distinguish between the sexual activities aimed at erotic pleasure and those aimed at procreation. The eroticization of sexuality is a particular phenomenon of the socialization of the individual: such as the elongation of the clitoris and the labia minora for the girls. . .
Agbota, Comlan Gérard. "La pédagogie du sacré ou le devenir mexojo mexo." Paris 5, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA05H081.
Full textMichozounnou, Romuald. "Le peuplement du plateau d'Abomey des origines à 1889." Paris 1, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA010615.
Full textSituated a hundred kilometres or so from the atlantic coast, the plateau of Abomey has given birth to the kingdom of Danxome, which is one of the important kingdoms in the southern area of the present day republic of Benin. Its peoples have probably been constitued by successive movements of populations since the Xth century mainly from the east to the west and from the south to the north. The yorubas or the Gedevi and the Za seem to be the first socio-cultural groups to be established on that plateau. But it is, the Agasuvi-Aladaxonu, the last to be established there who succeed through tricks, matrimonial unions and violence in founding the danxome kingdom. The latter was to extend later beyond the confines of its geographical cradle. The controle of that area is ensured from Abomey the capital city by Agasuvi dynasty that associates the Wemenu to that power through the different responsabilities conferred upon them. The Yorubas and Za are systematically deprived of power
Schottman, Wendy. "La parole dans la vie sociale des Baatombu." Paris 5, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA05H044.
Full textThis ethnolinguistic study of the baatombu (benin) examines several rather codified speech events that contribute to maintening the social structure. A first chapter deals with certain aspects of the notion of speech : its production, its power, the basic terms relative to it, women's speech, and its acquisition by children. The greeting routine, which allows participants to confirm their adherence to a strict, complex hierarchy, is studied in detail. A joking relationship which implies certain rights and obligations, exists between both related and non related categories of people. It is reaffirmed through the exchange of "jokes" at almost every encounter and particularly during key events for the society. The central concept of "shame" often dictates respectful silence or a strategic form of indirect speech for the inferior. The attribution of a proverb derived name to a dog is taken as an example. A long deals with anthroponyms
Oliveira, Bonaventure d'. "Expressions des couleurs et comportements sociaux : l'exemple des Fon du Bénin." Paris 5, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA05H105.
Full textOn this research on color symbolism contributing to explain the lack of studies on the use of color in African societies specialy in "Fon in Benin". We can examine "fon", only. From a color is able to express an individual behavior in a social group? To answer this question, we are guided by a psychological method: that that is the capability of an individual to ajust a stimili. Such a method si only one aspect of the subject. Other methods used in this research in order to deepen the research are, a study of structure, of symbolic, etc. . . So; there are other ways to explain the use of color in a certain element. Color, have the power to affect the sensitivity of an individual. It also contribute in the conditioning of Fon people social the contribution of color in the fon sociaty, is totally felt and it plays an important part in social conflicts : color is the support of a symbolic thinking that means color can go from an abstract idea to a material thing. The passage of the notion of color materialy in nature and in the subconssiousness of the people and their behaviour is also an element of language and contionning (symbolichy speaking) it's associated to the spiritual energy and sociological. So, we can discover that most fon's cultes ceremonies are guided by "symbolic chrom" and they are signs of markers of automatie behaviours)
Kligueh, Basile Goudabla. "La géomancie afa et le système vodu chez les Adza-Tado sur la côte ouest-africaine." Paris 1, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA010727.
Full textFor outseder's "vaudou" is classed as sorcery in haiti or among black people ; it is often said that "vaudou" is from africa. Indeed, on the west african coast (benin, togo and ghana), only the eve, the fon and their brothers adza-tado say vodu (eve) or vodoun (fon). Vodu and not "vaudou". Because "vo" means invisible or unknown and "du" means world. Therefor, according to the popular etymology, vodu means the world of the invisible. In fact, the layman notices only the manifestations of vodu : rituals, animal sacrifice, statuelles etc. . . For the initiated, the world of vodu is composed of : mawu, the highest existence; fetome, mawu's thought or origin of all visible manifestations ; and agbegbome where mawu materializes his thought. Everything in the world representes the mawu's multiple manifestations, corresponding to the four elements : air, fire, water and earth, in their different forms. Everybody can choose his own way to apply to mawu. The material or the manifestation becomes a simple receptacle. For being accessible, mawu gives his word to humans : afa. Afa is
Wilson, Seth. "Autonomie politique et originalité des civilisations dans le golfe du Bénin : le cas des Guin ou Mina d'Anecho (du 17e au 19e siècle)." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/29296.
Full textMansilla, Félicie. "La maladie "iba" : approche anthropologique de la question du paludisme chez les Yoruba du Bénin." Paris 5, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA05H040.
Full textThrough a study of the utilization of health resources by Yoruba people in the municpality of Accron, the writer tries to identify factors which are obstacles to a successful implementing of the malaria control policy in Benin. Field surveys have shown that health services are under utilized because of their own deficiencies ; that traditional medecine is still in favour with the people ; and that purchase of drugs without prescription is the most often used by people due to a little education and appreciation of the need for medical examination. Moreover these surveys have shown that in Yoruba culture malaria comes under an aetiological category called Iba. According to traditional healers, iba disease is caused by the sun, and is the consequence either of a fault made by the sick person, either of a sorcerer's attack
VIDEGLA, D. K. MICHEL. "Un etat ouest-africain : le royaume goun de hogbonou (porto-novo) des origines a 1908." Paris 1, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA010621.
Full textAssaba, Claude. "Pouvoir yoruba : dimensions sacrales et cognitives : étude de cas en République populaire du Bénin." Paris 5, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA05H034.
Full textBiton, Marlène-Michèle. "Les bas-reliefs des palais royaux d'Abomey, Bénin (ex-Danxomé)." Paris 1, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA010519.
Full textThis work is based on an analysis of an inventoried ensemble by us of 329 contemporary bas-reliefs which decorate the constructions'walls of royal and princes palaces of abomey's town and a second ensemble constituted by 218 historic pieces relieved during the conquest of the Danxome by France. The pieces are studied in their historical, sociological and environmental context. Informations about artists and technics used are proposed. A thematic classification underlignes dominant categories. The mnemotechnic fonction of this pieces have been placed in. The datation problem and the rapport with the evocated events are also treated. Elements of Fon aesthetic are coming out. Comparaisons between these two ensembles allowed to understand evolutions
Degbegni, Comlan Marie Salomon. "Kpojije-Le-Mawume des rites de reconciliation Saxwe au salut : communion en Dieu." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040242.
Full textNansounon, Orou Nam François. "Faire Eglise chez les Bariba du Nord-Bénin : impact de la famille : élaboration d'une stratégie pastorale familiale contextualisée." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007STR20069.
Full textIn this thesis, we used the method of pratical theology. Interviews and investigations were carried out, which led to a conclusion : the people of Bariba makes a family. Our investigations helped us to bring out three functions of the family among the people of Bariba. We however recognise that the notion of family in the traditional Bariba setting is changing gradually. Despite this incoming changes, we are convinced that the family remains the base of the society, a breeding ground for forming the personality of today and tomorrow’s children…
Koudjo, Bienvenu. "La chanson populaire dans les cultures "Fon" et "Goun" du Bénin : aspects sémiotique et sociologiques." Paris 12, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA120019.
Full textPopular song in the "fon" and "goun" cultures of benin approches this genre of oral literature from a pluridisciplinary standpoint, borrowing its methods of analysis from ethnomusicology, ethnolinguistics and literary semiotics. Taking the genesic myth of aziza, the deity of music, as a point of departure, the author proceeds to dissect the different components of vocal art: melodic, rythmic and verbal. He brings out the the paramount role played by popular song in literary expression in every respect by studying its association with the other genres of "fon" and "goun" oral literature. An exploration of the links between words and music and the semiology of the actual text show that this art not only mingles genres and voices but also takes liberties with language, using its poetry at several levels. Freedom is likewise made plain in the variety of the subject treated and the manifold circumstances under which it is displayed. Where composition is concerned, the structures of popular song obey standards that have been sometimes codified by culture. Dissemination through the media furthermore confers a spatial dimension and widens the audience. When played by western-style orchestras the music undoubtedly acquires new vigor and, of course, international stature. Neverthless, a valid means of preserving to the full those qualities of performance which bring out the inner riches of the art remains to be found. Ultimately, therefore, this study of popular song in
Hounsounon-Tolin, Paulin. "Analyse de questions éducatives : Éléments et Situations de comparaison chez les Romains de l'Antiquité et les Fon du Bénin." Montpellier 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009MON30081.
Full textThe policy of cultural decolonization by that of education grows from the concern of culturally conservation to oneself and is not at all dated from nowadays. Rome has been one of the first nations that engaged with that kind of policy, willing to set the Act of education even of its people on traditional vertues tighly overwhelmed with believes and religious parctices. But the change of the people morale mentality due to the weakness of the traditional believes to find solutions to the existant problems lands it in a total failure as far as the fight against the invasion of strange life style is concerned. The overpopulation of the Roman pantheon corresponds with the animism of Fon in Benin. Lègba of these latters identifiable to the Fortuna of the Romans, and the therapy of the divine priest of Lègba finds a psychological recovery through the mental of epicurean as stoic cure. The modernity is not then a vain word, through one should deeply think about it again. The higher bid of plot price in Benin makes people sell forests and the most sacred woods ; and this makes one think about the real reason of the destruction of Marseille sacred forest by Jules Cesar and his army companions. The concern to survive, and even to better live, is an absolutely imperative. Ecological, educational, judicial, moral and teaching vertues of traditional religions and believes depend exclusively on "pietas", in it roman meaning, of the followers of that believe in nowadays. Before doing anything of the traditional vertues, to build on a land or to make a fence - especially as far as the education act of a country is concerned-, it is first of all important to properly make a research on the "pietas" of the followers of thoses religious believers and practices. Finaly, it is necessary to make a research on the world Circum-Mediterraneans that bequeathed tho the western its current culture so as to understand that every culture grows from their preceding or from those with which it have business in common. That is the universal law of cultural cannibalism and many peoples should inevitably and necessary learn to to well behave at the table of cannibalism. For the cultural cannibalism is for each people what enculturation is for every human being. And it would be a wortheless joke to try to avoid it
Bako-Arifari, Nassirou. "Dynamiques et formes de pouvoir politique en milieu rural ouest-africain : étude comparée sur le Bénin et le Niger : une anthropologie politique de "l'État joueur" et de "l'État négocié" dans les arènes locales du pouvoir : cas des cantons de Gaya au Niger et de Gomparou au Bénin." Paris, EHESS, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999EHESA036.
Full textAntonio, Bienvenu. "Vêtements, ornements, couleurs : leurs langages codés dans la chefferie Gbindo du Bénin." Montpellier 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003MON30009.
Full textThese doctorate thesis in Ethnology and Anthropology : "Clothes, ornments, colours : theirs codified languages in Gbindo kingdom in Benin", concerns the traditional textile and clothing in an West African ethny. Here are the contents :Gbindo chiefery and its ceremonies (voodoo, Fa, religious rites),Conceptual study of clothing as a language of communication and delimitation of the corpus, History of the fon drape (avotita) and presentation of clothing as a demonstration of the Being through an Appearance, The colours in its contents of the senses, and its semantic and symbolic expression, Crossing the elements of chapters and consequences of conjunction between modernity and tradition,The method used : participating observation with documented and styled photographes
Padonou, Assomption. "Danser, c'est manger : pour une ethnographie de la créativité artistique chez les Gun de Porto-Novo (Bénin)." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2019. https://publication-theses.unistra.fr/restreint/theses_doctorat/2019/PADONOU_Assomption_2019_ED519.pdf.
Full textThe importance of Gun dance is not the beautiful choreography on which the spectators are often focused, but rather the activity of blood in the dancing body, including the cultural dynamics aroused by the endogenous knowledge to which the endogenous knowledge refers ancestral traditions among the Gun people. Indeed, the movements observed during the Gun dance are contractions of muscles each time accompanied by relaxations of the body, as if it were a renewed alternation between a cumulative and an expenditure of energies. As a result, dance feeds on energy. On the one hand, it feeds on a physical energy under the impulse of the heart that rhythms the proper circulation of blood irrigating the body dancing with nutrients. On the other hand, dance feeds on emotions aroused by knowledge that awakens memory to joy, to the sense of hope that sustains life. Hence, the dance consists in the hatching of the body through the beautiful ultrasound; it reveals both an opening of the heart punctuating life and an awakening of memory to the beauty of paradise, in the sense of forgetting the miseries of men and their history. As part of this thesis, I argue that dance is not only an art, but it is also a form of food. Dance is an art in which the dancing body eats life. Gun dance has nutritional characteristics of emotions, both performative and communicative, which help to express the most fundamental relationships of the Gun people with each other, including with their Vodǔn
Chogolou, Odouwo Guillaume. "Socialisation en milieu traditionnel et éducation scolaire : enracinement et déracinement culturels en éducation (cas des Fon d'Abomey au Bénin)." Thesis, Paris Est, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PEST0005.
Full textThis work of thesis, work of readings, searches, fieldworks social, reflection and analysis allowed me to tilt me on the question, how much complex, but vital, of the education. My problem was to try to investigate the education given to the young people in traditional context of Benin, and to ask me if this education allows these young people to feel public-spirited of the full world, without being totally cut by their roots. Then to see if by the school education we manage to open the same young people to the universal values and to make of them citizens of the world, without cutting them totally of their roots. I managed to ask myself the question of the cultural implanting and the banishment in touch with the question of the school education. Where from the title of this thesis: " socialization in traditional environment and school education: cultural implanting and banishment in education ". I analyzed, on one hand, the position of my interlocutors on what transmits, according to them, the family education then the functions that they expect from the school education, and on the other hand, I studied the real functions of the school. I approached the whole on an analytical and critical reflection, with in light my problem on the education as between implanting and banishment. How to understand the fact of the education as an implanting, that is a consideration of the identity of the subject in education, of his past, of its roots? And how understand the education as the banishment, the break, the cut with roots, the opening in the others? In the term of this work which so consisted in looking for the representations and the educational practices in traditional environment and to the school in Benin, I tried to determine, between tradition and modernity, the report between the representations and the educational practices in environment traditional as to the school. There is sometimes a distance between the representations and the practices of the same individuals: people do not still make that they say that they make. So, between traditional education and schooling, the problem is not so much preservation and the transmission of a valuable scale but, I would say, of the necessary composition of sometimes contradictory values between them
Mfoumou, Régine, and Olaudah Equiano. "Edition et traduction de l'autobiographie d'Equiano Olaudah, The interesting narrative of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789), par Equiano Olaudah (1745 ?-1797)." Paris 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA030176.
Full textEquiano Olaudah (1745 ?-1797), a freed slave, is certainly one of the African authors to have aroused the interest of his XVIIIth century contemporaries, due to his autobiography The interesting narrative of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by himself (1789) which recounts his travels where his personal experience is expressed in relation to historic references and is contained in a literary text that addresses several interdisciplinary topics of interest to the anthropologist, the historian, the economist and the writer. Published in many countries and translated into approximately ten languages since its original publication, The interesting narrative opened the way for a new literary genre, the slave narrative, which reached its peak in XIXth century America. In addition, the text has inspired many English-speaking African authors of the XXth century. .