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Edjekpoto, Gbèhouèkan Sylvestre. "Fabrique patrimoniale et enjeux touristiques à Ouidah (Bénin) : place de la mémoire de la traite négrière, des pratiques culturelles vodoun et des architectures anciennes." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Brest, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022BRES0051.
Full textThe heritage factory and the tourism practices it generates mobilize a remarkable plurality of actors involved in complex games with diverse and entangled interests. Studying the dynamics of cultural heritage and tourism is a delicate exercise in view of the wealth of data it solicits and the subtlety that characterizes them. In the African context, in the heart of the historic city of Ouidah, in the Republic of Benin, the patrimonialization and the setting in tourism of the vodoun cultural practices, the memory of the slave trade and the ancient architectures, bring to light logics that question the accepted theories. Starting from the case of Ouidah in Benin, compared to those of Oshogbo in Nigeria, Gorée in Senegal and Grand-Bassam in Côte d'Ivoire, this research work, instrumented by the comprehensive methodology, makes available a scientific approach to the exploration of the heritage factory and tourism practices. It constructs the notion of bottom-up and top-down heritage that coexist, oppose or complement each other, generally in African territories
Ekoue, Kossi. "Le concept de sacré dans la culture Vodoun du peuple Éwé ( Togo)." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42305.
Full textPoda, Mélaine Bertrand. "Aménagement urbain durable, vodoun et lieux de mémoire." Pau, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PAUU1005.
Full textThe objective of this thesis is to examine the links between the tangible and intangible heritage for their integration into urban planning and sustainable management of territories. It therefore proposes a clarification of the concept which allows to show its extensibility. The concept of heritage has undergone several changes, to such an extend that it has become today "nomad" as written by Françoise Choay precisely in her work entitled "The Allegory of Heritage". At the time of sustainable development, man or modern subject, who maintains an intrinsic connection to his place of life, should be the main actor in heritage selection and all its varied forms. The case of Voodoo religion in Benin practised by over 75% of the population, and which has also largely allowed the structuring of memorial sites related to trafficking and slavery is very illustrative for our study. Starting with field observations and survey results, statistically analyzed by univariate, bivariate and multivariate methods (AFCs), we identified in current planning, the traces of these places of memory, we profiled the inhabitants depending on this places and we analyzed their position in relation to present heritage elements. The results obtained allow a better understanding of heritage in terms of research in the Human and Social sciences as well as better integration of these projects in urban plannings and sustainable urban development today
Remse, Christian. "Vodou and the U.S. Counterculture." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1368710585.
Full textAdisso, José Quirin Coffi. "Mémoires et survivances de la traite des Noirs dans la baie du Bénin : permanences et mutations interculturelles de l'héritage des Retornados Aguda au Bénin." Thesis, Brest, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019BRES0001.
Full textIn the quest of a study of the intercultural relations between sub-Saharan Africa and Brazil, we come to investigate on the particular odyssey of the Retornees Aguda in Benin. They are formers are slavers coming back home mainly from Bahia, following the Malè revolt (1835), in their former cultural and geographic area where their ancestors have been caught and sold as slaves, the Slave Coast. Meeting the challenge of their reintegration in a community where their ancestors were expelled, those “new people” used some resourceful resistant mechanisms, and a powerful self-assertion to build a distinguish aristocratic class together with the Portuguese, the Brazilian, the English, the French, the Danish and the Dutch slavers settled on that coast many years ago.It is on the crest of that high position in the society that they greatly took part in the socio-economic and cultural changes in those welcoming areas up to deep transfer in local habits and customs. In so doing, they have been the first intellectual elite serving the French colonial administration that they later opposed till the independence of the Dahomey colony. This survey brings into light the continuities as well as the remarkable changes on the remnants of the Aguda’s sociocultural, linguistic, politic and religious legacy which are deeply rooted in Beninese’s everyday life that some of them hardly guess that some daily usages come from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean
Noukpo, Tchénando Patrick. "Les masques africains : des patrimoines identitaires dans la diversité culturelle entre espaces profane et sacré au Bénin." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020LORR0275.
Full textThis thesis is aimed to deal with the sociology of expertise in the african mask cultural mediation. In Benin country, it is observable that museums and performing arts do not exhibit certain categories of masks including égoungoun and abikou, while they show some others, zangbéto and guèlèdè in this case. This arouses attention, insomuch as in Porto-Novo, a city where a plurality of masks’ sanctuaries is noticed, the ethnographic museum paradoxically uses drawings to present the égoungoun and the zangbéto which on the other hand, are physically seen in exhibitions in western countries. These masks belong to two large cultural areas (adja-tado and yorouba-nago) densely present in three west african countries : Benin, Nigeria and Togo. This geographic area, but especially southern and central Benin will serve as framework for our study. It attempts to understand the sociological constraints unfavorable to some forms of mask exposure in beninese territory and whether the concerned populations can adopt a noetic openness approach and dialogue with other cultures. By doing field surveys with varied public made up of intellectuals, dignitaries of mask societies, political and adminitrative officials, religious authorities, cultural mediators, ritual traditions insiders and ordinary people that we deem, representative of the population to reveal the true faces of current popular beliefs, we hope we’ll provide social sciences with a first definition and classification of means to popularize the african mask, in a globalizing world cultural environment
Adegbinni, Adeothy. "Production foncière et patrimoine socio-cultuel au Bénin : cas des communes d'Adjarra et d'Avrankou." Thesis, Brest, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015BRES0086/document.
Full textIn Benin, the urban development of large cities on the periphery is a notorious phenomenon in recent decades, due in particular to increasing their changing populations. This new spatial dynamics results in a change of land use practices and urban sprawl in almost all the suburban municipalities. The land is now producing based on modern rules. But the status of the land in some of these suburban towns, including those with strong traditions Vodoun like Adjarra and Avrankou, raises a question about the influence of urban land production on the socio-cultic heritage. The interest of this research focuses on the issue of coexistence between indigenous land practices, looking to maintain itself, and the requirements of a modern land, which has some difficulties to be generalized. The results of our research allow us to determine the existence not only of a certain complicity between the two practices but also sometimes tensions and even confrontations between tradition and modernity. Modern land realities have been able to invest Avrankou and Adjarra area, high customary land practice, through the introduction of a land market arising from registration made especially administrative subdivisions, without managing to win in this locality. The presence of modern land tenure practices in this area was mainly facilitated by its geographical position, which makes it the receptacle of urban Porto Novo surges , resulting in a half countryside , half suburban (or urban ) next to this metropolis. Meanwhile, customary land tenure practices, although resistant face of modernity, experienced enormous changes, sometimes leading to the disappearance of certain land representations. While in the past, '' land '' (whole earth) and '' lands '' (space housing the gods) are perceived as sacred, this character seems now reduced in favor only "sacred lands", which are maintained thanks to the existence still of the belief in traditional religion. The "sacred lands" were not swept away by urban pressure, even if their spatial extent is strongly affected. Instead, they helped to slow, in many places, urbanization in its race to the consumption of space, creating a mixed landscape with interfering in the urban fabric tradition and modernity. This suburban area, which has the benefit of combining the influences of modernity and tradition, reveals, against the grain of mainstream thinking, instead of opposing, customary and modern land tenure systems tend to combine, creating a new situation
Humphrey, Paul Richard. "Gods, gender and sexuality : representations of Vodou and Santería in Haitian and Cuban cultural production." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2013. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4259/.
Full textMcGee, Adam Michael. "Imagined Voodoo: Terror, Sex, and Racism in American Popular Culture." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11350.
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Varrasso, Federico. "Représentations et croyances dans le vodou haïtien : approche filmique d'une communauté religieuse de Port-au-Prince." Thesis, Paris 10, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA100079.
Full textThe Haitian voodoo presents a profusion of practices and perceptible representations, symbolic ones, as material as corporeal. He influences the arts and the literature of a whole culture, well beyond the circle of his followers. If it is plural from origin, it was also collected and represented in a multiple way by his outer observers. Forged during a tempestuous history and present, its representation system seems to present a character at the same time persistent and permeable, connected to the faith itself. Through the analysis of worship images, a cinematic exploration conducted within a religious community of Port-au-Prince, and finally through a participatory experience of confrontation of the recorded images with the agents and film construction according to three different modalities, the study attempts to question the representation system of the followers and the relationship which it maintains with the faith. The research also tries to examine restitutions forms and specific visual anthropology tools applied to the study of symbolic representation systems and their dynamics
Fenton, Louise. "Representations of Voodoo : the history and influence of Haitian Vodou within the cultural productions of Britain and America since 1850." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3696/.
Full textCousin, Marie. "Tambor de crioula et tambor de mina, expressions musicales rituelles afro-descendantes de São Luis do Maranhão (Brésil) : créolité, identité, "culture de résistance"." Phd thesis, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00903580.
Full textGifford, Corey. "A Model for a Haitian Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center: An Accounting." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1438630721.
Full textHanderson, Joseph. "Vodu No Haiti Candomblé no Brasil: identidades culturais e sistemas religiosos como concepções de mundo afro-latino-americano." Universidade Federal de Pelotas, 2010. http://repositorio.ufpel.edu.br/handle/ri/1588.
Full textCette étude a pour thème central l`identité culturelle africaine et de la religion en Haïti et au Brésil. On a intéressé a rapprocher ces deux champs d`analyse, les similitudes et les différences possibles sur l`identité culturelle africaine en Haïti et au Brésil, en particulier dans les aspects religieux, afin d`explorer les questions sur le Vaudou et le Candomblé. Pour y parvenir, l`une des premières taches de la recherche était de mettre en contexte l`histoire des deux pays à comprendre que le Brésil et Haiti sont deux nations formées et guidées par une fondation solide d`origine africaine, venant de son passé colonial, encore aujourd`hui, affectant profondément les bases culturelles de ces deux nations. Le second était, d`examiner l`identité culturelle africaine a partir des catégories suivante: tels que l`identité, la culture, la race, la nation et la religion. A partir de l`analyse sur les travaux actuels de recherche sur les phénomènes religieux Vaudou et Candomblé, en Haïti et au Brésil, on a remarqué qu`ils étaient divers les processus historiques par lesquelles les deux États nacionaux on passés. On a remarqué, que au Brésil, les auteurs qui écrivent sur la culture nationale, l`histoire du pays, le cadre politique, pas forcément les mêmes auteurs qui écrivent sur le Candomblé. Les historiens, les sociologues et les anthropologues de la religion au Brésil, peuvent faire référence au pays sans mencioner le Candomblé. Au contraire, en Haïti, ces deux corpus sont fusiones: Il semble impossible de faire reference au Haïti sans mencioner le Vaudou, La litérature sur la societé haitienne a établit la connexion entre l`histoire et la culture nationale. Les résultats de la recherche montrent, le Vaudou represente la religion d`Haïti, en servant d`instrument de sa politique, et au Brésil, nation grande du point de vue géografique, avec uma variété de cultures, le Candomblé fait partie de l`identité culturelle brésilienne, mais à une échelle moins que le Vaudou en Haïti. On arrive, ainsi à la conclusion que le Candomblé est une religion d`État et le Vaudou de la nation. Cela se justifie pour le rôle du Vaudou durant la libération des anciens esclaves et l`indépendance d`Haïti, actuellement dans la politique interne du pays, être supérieure à l`espace du candomblé au Brésil. Comme on a indiqué, le Vaudou est un élément irréductible dans la construction du pays d`Haïti.
Este estudo tem, como temática central, a identidade cultural afro e a religião no Haiti e no Brasil. Interessa aproximar esses dois campos analíticos para delinear possíveis semelhanças e diferenças da identidade cultural afro no Haiti e no Brasil, particularmente nos aspectos religiosos, com o objetivo de explorar questões sobre Vodu e Candomblé. Para alcançar tal meta, uma das primeiras tarefas da investigação foi contextualizar a história dos dois países para compreender que o Brasil e o Haiti são nações formadas e orientadas por um forte fundamento de matriz africana, oriundo de seu passado colonial, até hoje afetando profundamente as bases culturais dessas nações. A segunda foi examinar a identidade cultural afro a partir de categorias explicativas como identidade, cultura, raça, nação e religião. Desde a análise do estado atual dos estudos sobre os fenômenos religiosos Vodu e Candomblé no Haiti e no Brasil, percebeu-se terem sido diversos os processos históricos pelos quais passaram os dois Estados nacionais. Observou-se, no Brasil, tanto os autores que escreveram sobre a cultura nacional, a história do país, o quadro político, quanto os referentes a essa temática não necessariamente serem os mesmos que tratam do Candomblé. Historiadores, sociólogos e antropólogos da religião, no Brasil, podem falar do país sem mencionar o Candomblé. Ao contrário, no Haiti esses dois corpora se fundem: parece ser impossível falar do Haiti sem fazer referência ao Vodu: a literatura sobre a sociedade haitiana faz essa ligação entre a história e a cultura nacional. Os resultados da pesquisa evidenciam, o Vodu a representar a religião do país, servindo de instrumento da sua política, e, no Brasil, nação grande em termos geográficos, com variedade de culturas, o Candomblé ser parte da identidade cultural brasileira, mas em menor escala do que o Vodu no Haiti. Chega-se, assim, à conclusão de o Candomblé ser religião de estado e o Vodu, da nação. Isso se justifica, porque o papel desempenhado pelo Vodu durante a libertação dos ex-escravos e a independência do Haiti, e atualmente na política interna do país, ser maior do que o espaço do Candomblé no Brasil. Conforme apontado, o Vodu é um elemento irredutível na construção do país haitiano.
Del, Olmo Ramon Alex. "El eterno retorno del no-muerto como arquetipo fílmico: Una aproximación a la figura del zombi en la cultura popular contemporánea." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/116217.
Full textEste estudio investiga la figura del muerto viviente –zombi- desde una perspectiva interdisciplinar para descubrir las causas del renacimiento al que se ha visto sometido el subgénero a partir del atentado terrorista producido en Estados Unidos el 11 de septiembre del 2001. Para ello el trabajo aborda la figura del no-muerto desde diferentes ámbitos y épocas históricas. Primero, trazando un recorrido que muestra la relevancia de esta figura en la cultura occidental, a través de la iconografía macabra a partir de su representación en las Danzas Macabras y los Triunfos de la Muerte durante la Edad Media para proseguir en el Renacimiento y la cultura de la disección de los cuerpos que acontecían en los Teatros Anatómicos y finalmente mostrando la relevancia de esta figura entendida desde un prisma capitalista y psicoanalítico, basándose en las teorías marxistas y freudianas del capitalismo y de lo ominoso. La siguiente parte del estudio se centra en el simbolismo del zombi en el folclore europeo para proseguir hacía su inicio etnográfico. Aquí tomarán relevancia tres figuras que mostrarán las primeras aproximaciones a esta figura desde el ámbito de la etnografía. En primer lugar W. Seabrook con su trabajo en “The Magical Island” que marcará un punto de inflexión entre las obras de no-ficción previas así como a la popularización de la figura del zombi en la cultura popular americana. Seguidamente, el trabajo de campo de Zora Neale y su aproximación al vudú y a los ritos religiosos haitianos y finalmente la controvertida y más actual investigación de Wade Davis acerca del proceso de zombificación en las sociedades haitianas. Estas tres visiones enmarcarán el contexto histórico y cultural haitiano y su religión mayoritaria –el vudú- para ayudarnos a entender los inicios del zombi como aparato ideológico y la zombificación como un castigo social en la sociedad haitiana. La segunda parte del estudio encauza la figura del zombi dentro del circuito cinematográfico como la consecución lógica a la llegada de esta figura de terror a occidente, explorando su éxito como arquetipo fílmico a partir del considerado primer film del subgénero “White Zombie” y de su primera explotación fílmica entre los años 1930 y 1950. Acto seguido se explora tres cinematografías básicas y complementarias entre sí que muestran la evolución del subgénero, así como a sus principales directores. De Estados Unidos, George A Romero, de España Amando de Ossorio y Jorge Grau y de Italia Lucio Fulci. Finalmente se analiza el útlimo renacimiento de la figura del zombi en la cultura popular a través de la Cultura del Apocalipsis de Parfrey y la estética de la destrucción a partir del 11/S analizando los motivos del inico de este renacimiento así como teniendo en cuenta los aspectos de mercado y tecnológicos que convierten al zombi en una figura transmediática, ejemplificado a través del videojuego “Resident Evil” y de la novela gráfica de Robert Kirkman “The Walking Dead” que nos llevará a trazar el futuro de este icono de terror al finalizar su tercera explotación.
This study investigates the figure of the undead –zombi- from an interdisciplinary perspective to discover the causes of his rebirth in the film genre since the terrorist attacks ocurred in the United States on September 11, 2001. This investigation deals with the figure of the undead from different areas and historical periods. First, tracing a route that shows the importance of this figure in Western culture, through the Macabre Iconography and its representation in the Dances of Death and the Triumph of Death during the Middle Ages to continuing in the Renaissance with the culture of dissection of corpses that happened in the Anatomical Theatres to finally showing us the relevance of this figure understood from a psychoanalytic and marxism prism, based on Freudian and Marxist theories of the uncanny and capitalism. The next part of the study focuses on the symbolism of the zombi in European folklore to continue seeking his etnographic start. Here take relevance three fundamental authors and their approaches to this figure from the field of etnography. Firstly W. Seabrook with his work on “The Magical Island” wich will mark a turning point between non-fiction works prior to he popularization of the zombi figure in American popular culture. Then, the fielwork of Zora Neale and her approach to vudoun and the Haitian religious rites and finally the most current and crontroversial investigation leaded by Wade Davis, showing us the process of zombification in Haitian society. These three views frame the historical and cultural context and its principal religion –vudoun- to help us understand the beginnings of the zombi as ideological apparatus and zombification as a social punishment in Haitian society. The second part of the study directs the zombi within the film circuit and the arrival of this horror figure into the West, exploring his success as a film archetype with effect from “White Zombie” considered the first zombi film, and the start of the first film explotation of the genre between 1930 and 1950. Then explores the three principal countries showing the evolution of the genre, and their main directors. From United States, Geaorge A. Romero, from Spain Amando de Ossorio and Jorge Grau, and from Italy Lucio Fulci. Finally we analyze the renaissance of the zombi figure in popular culture trhough Adam Parfrey’s “Apocalypse Culture” and the Aesthetics of Destruction after 11/S studing the reasons for this revival and taking into account the market and techological aspects that rebuild the zombi as a transmedia icon, exemplified trhough the video game “Resident Evil” and the graphic novel by Robert Kirkman “The Walking Dead”, leading us to chart the future of this horror icon –the zombi- at the end of his third wave, and at the moment, last wave.
Niblick, Alison. "The Impact of Minority Faith on the Experience of Mental Health Services: The Perspectives of Devotees of Earth Religions." Wright State University Professional Psychology Program / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wsupsych1342202990.
Full textVan, Der Meer Tony. "Spiritual Journeys: A Study of Ifá /Òrìṣà Practitioners in the United States Initiated by Nigeria." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1487938234573904.
Full textCrocker, Elizabeth Thomas. "Moral geographies of diasporic belonging: race, ethnicity, and identity among Haitian Vodou practitioners in Boston." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/24100.
Full textUrban, Milan. "Fyziologická a proteomická charakterizace vlivu abiotických stresů na ozimou formu brukve řepky olejky." Doctoral thesis, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-356117.
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