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Tossou, Hovanna Yao. "La mort Ewe." Paris 5, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA05H128.
Full textThe ewes defined the personality like an entity that cannot be described. The "se" is always existing. Before the birth of man he lived in the divine city; on earth, he's only on holidays ; after death, he returns above with the power of manifesting as he wants in the postmortel apparitions. Death, for the ewes shows the end of first stage of life, that of terrestrial existence. It consists an act accomplished by individual to return according to a programme which was already established, elaborated by himself, and approved by divine city at above
Owusu-Sarpong, Christiane. "La mort Akan : étude des formes d'énonciation propres aux rites funéraires akan." Besançon, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992BESA1002.
Full textDembélé, Adama. "Les rites funéraires sénufo : de la mort au statut d'ancêtre chez les Sénufo du Folona et du Kaboila (cercle de Kadiolo, Mali)." Paris 12, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA120009.
Full textSenufo people live on the north of the ivory coast, the south of mali and the west of burkina faso. The senufo funeral ritual requires the performance of rites which aim to protect the deceased's relatives, especially his or her widower, from death's contagion. The concern is therefore to protect the living persons' physical integrity with appropriate rites. But death does not merely affect the living person's health. It also threatens to disrupt the family balance. To impede it, new rites are performed. In short, funeral rites are prophylactic
Holder, Gilles. "Le système politique Sama : parcours et relations d'une société guerrière dans la boucle du Niger : analyse comparative." Paris 10, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA100009.
Full textNne'e, Onna Valérie. "Croyances magico-religieuses, imaginaire collectif et commerce : itinéraires de petits commerçants à Yaoundé (Cameroun)." Paris, EHESS, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EHES0692.
Full textThis work focuses on small vendors belonging to the Beti-Fang community. From their perspective, a successful business is a prerequisite for personl fulfillment. This achievment, demonstrated by the recognition of the pre-eminent status of "man not", is a condition and a manifestation of "mvoe" (absolute form of welfare and the ultimate horizon of existence). Material and social peace is unattainable without a favorable relationship with the invisible world. In fact, they perceive the universe as separated in two worlds: "visible" world (in which evolves all living beings) and an "invisible" world (restricted to those with supra-human powers). The universe is also divided into "good" and "evil" fields according to their propensity to favor or harm the "mvoe". In order to protect themselves from witches and other "Satan's agents", the vendors have to get the support of powerful allies found in the "divine field", particularly in the Pentecostal churches. Despite its hrmfulness, the invisible world is a place of opportunities as well, especially for underprivileged groups. Prosperous alliances with invisible forces are supposed to ensure well-being and success in the visible world. This constitutes what we have called the "magical and religious capital", referring to the ability of an individual to mobilize agents with supra-human powers to effectively act on the intangible aspects of his life
Bouloré, Vincent. "Les masques baoulé dans la Côte-d'Ivoire centrale : (approches historique et stylistique comparées)." Paris 1, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA010525.
Full textThe Baule are famous for their masquerades and masks. Around 1700 migrations waves of Akan coming from Ghana arrived in central Ivory Coast, they integrated autochtonous, south-mande and senufo peoples, then creating baule culture. Contrary to the present non-Akan Baule's neighbors (guro, wan, yaure and senufo) wich form with them central Ivory Coast area the Akan usually do not have any masks. A brief analyze of the three baule masquerades (Goli, Bonu Amuen and Ngblo) and the ones of their neighbors shows formal and functional similarities. This thesis starts from the assumption that baule art has built-in on gradually from different sources and borrowings since the XVIIIe century during bade culture was developing. Its purpose is to comparatively understand how and when the style of the baule's masks has flourished, how can this style had becoming aesthetically and culturally independent from the other styles of central Ivory Coast. Comparisons take place in three ways: from the artistic context to the locating of the different relationships between Baule's masks and those of their neighbors', going through an analysis of forms. Regarding the colonialism statement that one style does correspond to one tribe, one must had created a more realistic an opening view of the African people and their art's styles. Thus after studying the formal meanings of the art works, searching and sometime discovering their own personal style (one of a specific artist), looking for the iconographic tendencies, one have tried to explore and go back to the routes of borrowings. By this way, we give an extremely contrastive and very complex spectrum of the stylistic relationships. Datings, as the evolutive account of the styles and their aesthetic characterizations -three themes who has been developed in conclusion- are very essential datas in history of art. In central Ivory Coast as in other areas of black Africa, history and styles, history and arts are undoubtedly linked. Also in order to analyze them there is an absolute necessity to recognize history of African art as a complete and genuine discipline this last aspect making up the ultimate topic of these research
Lechaux, Emeline. "Tisser le fil de la mémoire : contribution à l'histoire des répertoires musicaux des cérémonies de "bwétè" chez les Mitsogo du Gabon." Paris, EHESS, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EHES0640.
Full textThe purpose of my thesis is the ceremonies organized within the context of initiation into bwétè dísùmbà, in the Mitsogo population og Gabon. I intended to achieve two objectives: on the one hand, to expose the constants and variants of the ritual protocol, the musical instruments and mópɔ̀sɛ̀ répertoire performed around the sacred tree, form materials collected over half a century (1966-2013); on the other hand, to provide ethnomusicology with a permanent tool which consists of a method of making diachronic comparison of corpus thesis materials. Working on Gabonese and archived fields getting archives fields as part of a new research, I gathered heterogeneous documents collected by three ethnomusicologists: Pierre Sallée, Sylvie Le Bomin and myself. Methods of parametrization, categorization and source criticism as well as multimedia tools, proved to be relevant in studying this kind of corpus. The results point to the value of exploiting archives for ethnomusicology and enriching the anthropological and historica knowledge of a ritual through the analysis of audio
Arnal-Soumaré, Claude-Stéphanka. "Culture traditionnelle africaine et marquage du corps féminin : l'excision chez les Bamanan du Bélédougou (Mali)." Toulouse 2, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997TOU20024.
Full textThis sociological and ethnological analysis of ritual female excision practices was carried out in a traditional bamanan society in mali, where every young girl is subjected to removal of the entire clitoris with or without the excision of the labial minora (excision type ii). The thesis adopts an analysis of this practice in terms of ritual and demonstrates the need to place female excision/genital mutilation in the context of the wider values of the bamanan society. Thus, the pain and suffering endured during the excision ritual can be seen to play a major role in imposing the norms, values and behaviour that are required of women in the context of the dominant gender relations in this society. An analysis of the economic and social structures of the bamanan society serves to illustrate the subordinate position of women generally and leads to an analysis - based on observation and the songs sung during the excision ritual - of the parallel, but not equivalent, role played by male circumcision and female excision in the structuring of social relations and in the reproduction of traditional values, notably in terms of gender relations. However, the bamanan society is undergoing considerable change - the spread of western values, the gradual increase in the influence of moslim beliefs and transformations in the system of economic production. This changing context has a considerable influence on the female rituals, both in terms of their timing (birth, puberty, marriage) and of their adoption (comparison of urban and rural areas); its serves to transform the significance that such rituals had in the traditional bamanan society. This thesis aims to show that the future of female excision is closely tied up with the response that the bamanan society constructs in the face of "modernity"
Bruyer, Annie. "Que font en brousse les enfants des morts? : Morphologie et rituel chez les Moosi." Paris, EHESS, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988EHES0306.
Full textThis dissertation is based on field work carred out in a moosi village, locted in the east of burkina faso. Alocal story tells of a man who left another village to found his own, how this man came to be considered an "elder brother", and how he was obliged to submit himself to the authority of the chief of his village of origin. In the village, every chief is held to be attached to this fondation and every year he organizes a feast to honour the ancestors, both the founder and other patrilineal ancestors, and to renew his power. Districts, the territorial subdivisions of the village, are each inhabited by one patrilineage who conduct his own marriages and funerals. At a funeral, the deceased must be transformed into a sprit. The "children of the dead person" and his "joking kinsmen" see to this transformation. In this way, the deceased is given to the earth-mother, female part of the moosi god' wende. During funerals, the inhabitants are no longer subordinated to their ancestors but to wende. Funerals are very differents from other village or district rituals, since they call into question the villagers'values. Thus institutional forms, most notably territorial power represented by the village chief, are in contradiction with the funeral rituel wich reestablishes original principles that the arrival of a civilizing hero, the founder of the village, overturned once long ago
Devo, Irène E. H. "Contribution à la connaissance des rites traditionnels d'une communauté africaine : les Pédah d'Anyron-Kopé au sud du Togo." Paris 7, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA070129.
Full textThe study of the ritual practices of the african traditional milieu in general with particular reference to the Pedah of Anyron-Kope located in southern Togo. The thesis tries to shed light on the initiation rites as performed by the people in the south of Togo known as the Pedah. The study is essentially in three parts: the first part introduces the area of research namely Anyron-Kope with its geographical, historical backround as well as the organisation of the family, cosmogony, beliefs and religious practices. The second part devotes itself to the description of the life cycle of the woman, marriage, married life, pregnancy, childbirth, name-giving, initiation rites and upbringing. The last part deals with funeral rites consisting of preburial ceremonies, preparation for burial, burial itself as well as burial ceremonies. The study undertaken, by its title, description and analysis, illuminates for us the traditional practices of the Pedah and, on a socio-cultural level, provides us with salient points of reference concerning this community in southern Togo. The thesis is therefore the fruit of our concern to shed light on the great cultural wealth and the mystery of the practices and values involved in forming members of the Pedah society
Zigane, Tobisigna Françis. "Les Bisano et la mort : idéologie funéraire au Burkina Faso." Paris 5, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA05H026.
Full textPetit, Pierre. "Rites familiaux, rites royaux: étude du système cérémoniel des Luba du Shaba, Zaïre." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212757.
Full textVidal, Laurent. "Les génies de la parole : rituels de possession en milieux Peul et Zarma au Niger." Paris 5, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA05H084.
Full textPeul of western niger have taken from their neighbours (the Zarma) the practice of possession's rituals which have therapeutic vocation. Presentation and analysis of a certain number of historical times that lived those populations (on the fringe of orthodox islam ans possession's rituals) permit to define the foundation of possession's culture and to question about notions of myth, traditional religion and ritual. This approach of possession is organized around an omnipresent speaking which gives meaning to those practices. The speaking is at the center of the illness caused by a spirit from beginning to end, going through diagnosis. Being efficient, the speaking must be developed in discourses which are the expression of a knowledge. This stake concerns every speaking, whether fits in with a ritual time or not. Besides a wellconsidered and protected speaking, we found an explicit and familiar vocabulary, which never makes a possession humdrum. The increase in the number of carefully phrased remarks and, also, of technical precautions, which are part of every intervention binded to possession, is the expression of the fear of knowledge's calling into question. . .
Tsekenis, Émile. "Les autochtones et le chasseur : essai de définition du rapport entre le rituel et le politique pour une chefferie bamilékée (ouest-Cameroun)." Paris, EHESS, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000EHESA114.
Full textPetit, Agathe. "La mort au loin : les pratiques funéraires des migrants africains en France." Paris, EHESS, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002EHES0101.
Full textPalé, Augustin. "Processus migratoire et identité Lobi." Nice, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997NICE2010.
Full textThis study is an attempt to probe into the issue of identity and to stress its relationship with migratory manifestations, namely by restricting attention to the Lobi (a west-african ethnic group well-known for its propensity for migration, which, besides, accounts for its presence in the southern region of Côte d'Ivoire). We have brought into light the sociocultural, territorial and symbolic strategies which allow the parties involved in this migratory phenomenon to cultivate a sense of belonging to two separate communities. This cultivation - so to speak -, brings in turn some kind of cultural differentiation which makes the word "identity" pregnant with complex meaning
Bekele, Metasebia. "Pierres dressées et coutumes funéraires dans les sociétés Konso et Gewada du sud de l'Éthiopie." Paris 1, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA010691.
Full textDogba, Ahidje. "La perte ou l'affaiblissement de l'identité socio-culturelle ancestrale de l’Afrique noire : exemple du groupe ethnique Dida : le cas précis de la région de Zikisso en Côte d'Ivoire." Paris 4, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040278.
Full textBeuvier, Franck. "Les maîtres du stade : ce que danser aux funérailles veut dire : les cadets, les défunts et l’institution de la chefferie : ethnologie et histoire des associations masculines en pays bamiléké (Cameroun)." Paris, EHESS, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013EHES0528.
Full textCreated in the 1960s, "cultural associations of traditional dance" have become, along with brotherhoods of notables, the legitimate representatives of Bamileke chiefdoms, a showcase for their grandeur and influence. These dance groups are headed by the cadets, whom anthropology has considered for a long time to be a subordinate group that plays a part in the social reproduction of the palace hierarchy and institution of chieftaincy. This reinterpretation of the biographical itineraries of these "young" men - during the 20th century - comes out of an ethnological study of the network of associations that have given shape to Bamileke chiefdoms. Thios dominant characteristic is used to analyze retrospectively the status assigned to "young" men during various periods and the places where new values originate among them. Two major hypotheses underlie this research. First of all, assessing the position of notables in relation to the cadets during the history of the Grassfield chiefdoms entails examining the place and importance of the associations to which they belong. Secondly, given that the deceased are a primary reference group, in whose names the customary ordre and foundation of chieftancy are justiofied, the evolving role played by Bamileke youth cannot be studied without taking under consideration both their involvment in, and commitment to, customs as well as customary knowledge, and their prerogatives in the events expected by the deceased. These expectations are revealed through the commemorations performed by the associations headed by cadets
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 textMifune, Marie-France. "Performance et construction identitaire : Une approche interdisciplinaire du culte du bwiti chez les Fang du Gabon." Paris, EHESS, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012EHES0506.
Full textThis study shows the role of the performance in the identity construction of the initiates from the bwitist community called "disumba mongo na bata" among the Gabonese Fang. To a large extent, this work aims to find a coherent and unified interdisciplinary approach to the study of performance. Since musical activity is present at every moment of the main ritual called "ngozo", we consider the ritual as performance. The choice of the performance concept allows us to consider in our analysis the musical matter and the other elements intimately linked to it in the ritual practice of the "bwiti" cult: the linguistic and corporeal matters. According to both formal and ethnological analyses, this study allows to underline the several levels of meaning of the performance in the ritual. Performance structures the ritual and takes part into the representation of the "bwiti"universe. Each material (songs, musical instruments, dances, ritual actions) is a specific channel of meanings on a structural and a symbolic dimensions of analysis. Performance has a specific role in the complex identity construction of the initiates: several identities are built through the performative and symbolic funstions of the ritual actions. Preserving, updating and passing down to the initiates the practice and interpretative ritual knowledge, the performance further builds up the ritual, sexual and social identities of the initiates
Zame, Avezo'o Léa. "Esika et pratiques rituelles chez les Mahongwè du Gabon." Paris, INALCO, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000INAL0020.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is to analyze the relationship between the mythical narrative text genre 'esika' and actual ritual practices for the ethnic group Mahongwe of Gabon. The study will proceed along two lines ; the first involves research into the ways that ritual practices are represented in texts ; the second involves looking at the various filled by this particular genre of narrative texts. The work is based on a corpus of 114 narrative texts of which 12 are selected for detailed presentation and analysis. The first section provides an overview Mahongwe society and ritual practice. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of the oral narrative genre esika in traditional Mahongwe culture. The second section clarifies the structural characteristics of this genre of oral literature and lays out the methodological assumptions and principles that will be employed in the textual analyses. Following an essentially ethnolinguistic approach, the 12 textual analyses together show that the esika stories systematically evoke values and symbols which are drawn from cultural rites. The synthesis of these analyses provides an inventory of ritual practices and reveals two primary modes of ritual representation in the stories. The first is symbolic representation proceeding by analogy and the second is direct representation involving imitation. In the course of the study, it becomes clear that the esika stories have a primary function of facilitating the interpretation of Mahongwe ritual practices either in a social or metaphysical sense. Today, under pressure from social change, the esika stories tend to play a role of substituting for the rites themselves, to be an instrument of identity construction, and to become the place where society elaborates its value system
Granier-Duermaël, Anne-Lise. "Les artisans-médiateurs en milieu dogon : étude des groupes Jan et Gon." Paris, EHESS, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003EHES0141.
Full textThis work concerns the survey of the Jan and Gon groups, two social categories in the Dogon environment that have been little studied. The Jan men are generally tanners or tradesmen, their wives practice the dyeing of indigo in numerous regions. The Gon have an important oral tradition function that they either exercise at the time of certain feasts or of certain rituals. Most of them are also leather craftsmen. Jan and Gon all have a power of mediation. Principal axes of this research concern the manner in wich these two groups have been formed, the sense of labels and stereotypes that relates to these groups, the formation of their status within Dogon society as well as their evolution until the present period. Results let appear a heterogeneity of these craftsmen groups as well as the chronological development of their social processes: first half of the XVIIIth century for the Gon subsystem, end of the XVIIIth century and course of the XIXth century for the Jan subsystem. Otherwise, technological advancement and the progression of Islam mark the deterioration of their position in Dogon society
Gausset, Quentin. "Les avatars de l'identité chez les Wawa et les Kwanja du Cameroun." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212271.
Full textHalloy, Arnaud. "Dans l'intimité des orixás : corps, rituel et apprentissage religieux dans une famille-de-saint de Recife, Brésil." Paris, EHESS, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005EHES0198.
Full textThe objective of my work is to focus on the sociocognitive mechanisms driving religious transmission. My research on Xangô, a cult of Yoruba origin located in Recife (Brazil), concentrates on the role played by ritual action on acquisition and transmission of religious knowledge and practices. Thre complementary issue are stucturing this study : how social and historical contexts stucture practice, how the latter is to be considered an answer to this social reality ; what kind of knowledge is actually transmitted and learned, and what are the pragmatic conditions of religious apprenticeship ; how ceremonial practices influence everyday life? Through this selected case-study, i hope to identify some properties of ritual practice amenable to intervene in any religious transmission
Ferran, Hugo. "Offrandes et bénédictions : une anthropologie musicale du culte des ancêtres chez les Maale d'Ethiopie." Paris, EHESS, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010EHES0430.
Full textBased upon several fieldworks conducted between 2001 and 2008, this work proposes a musical anthropology of the ancestor worship among the Maale of Southwestern Ethiopia. After showing how the ancestor worship organizes the Maale society in patrilineages, I explain how these lineages are considered as the channels through which the musical offerings (ershitsi) of the lineage youngers to their elders as well as the blessings (ots’o) of the latter to their lineage youngers are exchanges. The fieldwork inquiry reveals that each musical offering is intended to simultaneously carry four types of information. If some of them are verbally expressed by the lyrics sung, the ethnomusicological analysis chows that the music, the dance and the performers status also convey (but each in its own way) details about the type of the performed offering
Sidibé, Fodé Moussa Balla. ""la confrerie des chasseurs bamanan : litterature et societe a travers des chants et recits de chasse"." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA040125.
Full textOur following work is devoted to the bilingual presentation - in bamanan and french languages - of six (6) epic tales and six (6) hymns from the traditional bamanan hunters of mali. A literary work being the reflection of its society, a brief presentation of the bamanan people is done on historical, economical and socio-cultural levels. Moreover we endeavour to bring out the literary richness and the socio-cultural fonctions of the hunters brotherhood's specific literature; underlining the religious life, beliefs and conceptions of the traditional bamanan hunter
Lienard, Pierre. "Le comportement rituel: communication, cognition et action: génération, âge, filiation et territoire: contribution à l'ethnographie de deux populations du Cercle Karimojong (les Turkana du Kenya et les Nyangatom d'Ethiopie)." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211360.
Full textHamid, Ahmed Mohamed-Tahir. "Paroles d'hommes honorables : essai d'anthropologie poétique des Bedja du Soudan." Bordeaux 2, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000BOR21018.
Full textKambou, Sié Daniel. "Le Joro et l'éducation à la foi : fonctions et enjeux d'une démarche d'initiation." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/18470.
Full textBaeke, Viviane. "Le temps des rites: l'univers magico-religieux des Wuli :Mfumte du Cameroun occidental." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212336.
Full textPassing, Fergombé Amos. "Tadeusz Kantor, le "théâtre de la mort" ou l'écriture de la mémoire (les rites africains aux confluences de la scène Kantorienne)." Valenciennes, 1996. https://ged.uphf.fr/nuxeo/site/esupversions/7cb4d023-f68b-4c64-b345-87549258abd7.
Full textTadeusz Kantor (Wielopole, Krakow 1915 - Krakow, 1990), polish director, scenery artist, author and painter, made his mark on the plastic and theatrical universe for almost half a century through his radicalism and his peculiar artistic and scenic practices. His work lies on the twisting path of creation, and the figures of his theatre are a reflection of the 20th century strangeness, waking dreams, and dramas. This thesis seeks to bring together the fragmentary faces of Kantor's work in order to analyse it from three points of view: space and the bedroom of the imagination, the most insignificant and base object, and the scenic text. This contribution, based on the biography of the author, his theoretical manifestos and his theatrical works, will create an inventory of the masks and blasons of death in the light of a writing of memory. It is at the coming together of death and memory that the foundations of Kantor’s theatre will become clear. Death, perceived through decomposition and the basest level of reality, paradoxically gives us hope of life. To keep this thought of death and memory fresh in our minds the second part of our approach will be to propose a certain reading of African funeral rituals in order to establish a basis for a scenic text that could shed light upon an Africa in distress. In this the celebration of the funeral rites of the Moundang people of Cameroon and Chad will be at the heart of a project in which actors, spectators, space, objects and texts will be used for a dramatic form of writing which conserves a memory of the living, and also for a dialogue between death and life. Where Kantor and Africa come together the theatre of death will finally promise a future and found a new form of writing rooted in its awareness of the dramas of our world
Antoine, Philippe. "L'Église et les fiançailles : la tradition canonique au service d'un droit particulier (la coutume du royaume Bambara de Ségou,Mali)." Paris 11, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA111013.
Full textWhat is betrothal in canon law and how the church has worked out this law on the ground of the jewish, roman and germanic customs in the first centuries. What was at stake in the controversy about the true place of promise of marriage in the formation of matrimonial bound at the classical ages. What have been the particular law and practice of betrothal in the church of France till the great revolution. May this tradition provide a breakthrough to solve the difficult problem of coherency between customary and christian marriage in Africa according to the always enduring customs of the Bambara in the former kingdom of Segu in Mali, West Africa
Jespers, Philippe. "Essai sur la religion minyanka." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212955.
Full textVetturelli, Susanna. "Fertilità, cura e trasmissione del sapere tra le donne del gruppo Dimba-Tùlon di Kolda in Alta Casamance (Senegal)." Paris 8, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA083248.
Full textThe study of a device for therapeutic care of women’s fertility trouble among the Peul tribe in Upper-Casamance, is of great relevance to anyone with education, health or training professions dealing with multicultural situation. This device aims at understanding the patient’s case and defining the context in which the trouble first appeared. The author, who has herself been involved in the practices of dimba-túlon women from de Kolda area who treat women’s infertility through a therapeutic rite, aims at describing how this group of women explains women’s infertility as well as the kind of knowledge and therapeutic devices it sets up to cure all troubles impeding the process of procreation. Moreover, by concentrating and analysing the therapeutic techniques of the healer, father of the group, the author explains the theories on which they are based and the local etiologies about infertility troubles
Joiris, Véronique. "La chasse, la chance, le chant: aspects du système rituel des Baka du Cameroun." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211984.
Full textCalderoli, Lidia. ""Déposer la masse" pour demander la paix : représentations et pratiques de la forge chez les forgerons moose de Wubr-tẽnga (Burkina Faso)." Paris, EHESS, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999EHES0016.
Full textNyst, Nathalie. "Bafut: une chefferie et son trésor ;éléments pour l'étude de la gestion culturelle traditionnelle." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212036.
Full textPlancke, Carine. "J’irais avec toi : désirs et dynamiques du maternel dans les chants et les danses punu (Congo-Brazzaville)." Paris, EHESS, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010EHES0601.
Full textThis PhD-thesis explores the mainly female song and dance practices of the Punu of Congo-Brazzaville. It develops their potential to give expression to creative impulses and affects and also highlights their regenerative capacity. To this enjd a double approach is adopted: a phenomenological and a praxeological one. Each approach is realized through a specific method. A precise description of concrete events discloses their most striking impulses and inspirations emerging in connection with the pre-established song and dance structure. The outline of the different dynamics leads to the qualification of these events as potential spaces: they open up space for singular contributuions that nevertheless stay in close connection with the group and the shared ethos. An analysis of the Punu life world at moments of important transition. It is sustained that this revitalisation acts through a resonance connecting the physical, social and cosmic body, furthered by the congruence operating between the song and dance forms and the regenerated universe. The song and dance practices are most strongly oriented towards the watersprit universe. As this universe is conceived in reference to the intra-uterine experience, its nature and the particularity of the dance dynamics relating to it are finally re-evaluated in their matrixial dimension, i. E. In their weaving of transformational borderlinks that generate continuous transmissions in a multisensorial encounter that is accompanied by shared and diffused affects
Bana, Jeanne. "Rituel du Séké chez les Akan lagunaires en Côte d’Ivoire : approche dramaturgique de l’exemple Krobou." Paris, EHESS, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012EHES0552.
Full textThe study aims to offer a new perspective by deconstructing conventional analysises, which most often remain confined to conceptions of imaginary folklore. Through a dramaturgical analysis of séké tchédi, the ritual is resituated in its ethnological framework as a cultural, religious, and politcal phenomenon, and as playful, tension-relieving space. Multiple questions have enabled reflection on this dramaturgical approach: how does the séké tchédi reveal itself as a dramatic creation? What is the role of play and of lived experience? What creative representations may we establish between the dramatic arts and séké tchédi? In responding to these questions, we aim to shed light on relations between theater and ritual and their modes of theatrical transposition. Thus, dramaturgical analysis of séké tchédi acts as a springboard for grasping for grasping the ritual's nature as simultaneously sacred and profane, in which the unexpected exists complimentaryly with a certain mise-en-abîme. --In examining the different elements and theatrical techniques of séké tchédi, this study adheres to a plurality of approaches as well as to a relation on the social and dramaturgical aspects of séké tchédi. Through this research we attempt to show that the ritual is conceived and represented by the community and for the ccommunity. Aesthetically, it reveals itself as a collective creation, a drama through which life and death collide, a game both visible and invisible through which social rebalancing and confrontation of powers take place, a momentary restoration of links between human beings and the invisible
Mane, Albert. "Approche de la culture balant (moyenne et basse Casamance, sud Sénégal) : société, maladie, thérapie, pouvoir." Paris 5, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA05H029.
Full textThe ethnological name "Balant" is not a Senegalese speciality. We also meet "balant" people in Guinea-Bissau. Therefore concerning the ground the research worker is in the presence of one vast social entirety which cultural disparity has incited without any doubt the authors of colonial documents to diverse types of approaches. On the map the "Casamance" region was a kind of southern annexed confined between Gambia and Guinea-Bissau. This spacious region of south Senegal has given birth to two new regions: Ziguinchor and Kolda. The motive of this study is consecutive to the circumstances of our father's disease, who has been down with a cerebral tumour, in 1972. The different modern and traditional courses of treatments he had to follow before to regain health have brought us to centre its interest on three principal axises: disease, health, therapy, among the "bi-jaa" an under-group of the "Balant" people. It draws a certain number of typical common points of the cure in traditional Africa at one and the same time situates the traditional medicine in indigenous or "animistic" circle to an impact point between the knowledge and the faith. It had try to encircle the interpretation of disease and therapeutic rites, the political and economic system, the rites and collective ceremonies, the certain sights of social life and of the power idea among the "bi-jaa" people of "Casamance"
Ngametche, Robinson. "Le festival Ngondo afro-monde de Montréal comme adaptation de l'identité culturelle des Sawa au Canada." Thesis, Université Laval, 2013. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2013/30112/30112.pdf.
Full textNgabondo, Boniface. "Musique et rite funéraire chez les Zandé et les Nzakara de Centrafrique." Paris 10, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA100042.
Full textIn this study, funeral music has been treated in two principal categories. In the first place, music is envisaged as a particular mode of social expression, articulating with other types of expression (speeches, specific acts associated with troublesome presence of death) in funeral rites that are understood as a general language. However, the exact implications of this could be understood by examining local representations and beliefs about death. Secondly, music is studied as an artistic production whose ritual cycle reveals very close relations between musical and poetic art. This inquiry into the sense of funeral rites, based on previous anthropological works and on our own observations permits us to bring out the idea of destiny, of the fatality of delats or of social and cosmic disorder caused by this phenomenon under certain conditions. In these societies, people’s feeling about death is influenced by age. Whereas the death of an old man is seen as a process leading him to join the world of spirits, that of a young person is expressed as an anomaly that affects the social and cosmic system. The nature of musical repertories and their links with other expressive means of funeral rites defines three categories of music that are integrated into three episodes of ritual cycle: a) during vigil, music is specifically associated with funerals. These are common texts directly related to death; b) during widowhood, are found divinatory musical repertories associated with the search for the causes of death, c) at the end of mourning, music repertories commemorate the dead. The texts of these deal with daily preoccupations. The study of thoughts about death and funeral rites is indispensable to understand the role played by this music. Inversely, analysis of certain aspects of musical art enlightens our reflexions on and succession of rituals
Mekodiomba, Romain. "La construction missionnaire de l’identité kota (Gabon)." Paris, EHESS, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011EHES0647.
Full textThe process of evangelization undertaken by the missionaries faced various onstacles. Indeed the kotas known as the natives opposed to the infiltration of western religion showed a lack of interest in their attempts asserting their way of life and habits such as polygamy. For the Kotas, the most important remained the relevance of their traditional rites such as "Mongala" and "Ngoye" associated with circumcision that represented an essential aspect of their social life but considered by the missionaries as fetishistic practices. Actually and beyond its initiatory function consisting in introducing young men (teenagers) to the world of the adults, the ceremony of circumcision aimed at bringing forth or carrying on the Kotas identity. Therefore by denying "Mongala" and "Ngoye" the missionaries contributed not only to deeply transform the rites of circumcision, but they also led to alter Kota's thinking
Blanchard, Catherine. "Les statues dites "Anyi de Krinjabo" dans la statuaire en terre cuite du quart sud-est de la Côte d'Ivoire : étude stylistique et historique." Paris 1, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA010692.
Full textThis stylistic and historical study of the statues called "Anyi de Krinjabo" is an attempt to reunite and give sense to a set of objects which have been cut off from their original environement and dispersed all over the world. The study focuses on a specific type of statues, the Mma Anyi, which are anthropomorphic funerary figures in terra cotta whose production was stopped at the turn of the century. It almost replaces them on a more general framework that of the traditional portraiture in terra cotta of the south-east of the ivory coast and the south-west of ghana. The "Krinjabo-Anyi" style does exist, it is a royal art found in the kingdom of sanwi whose capital is Krinjabo. But this traditional practice was also found in other population before the anyi's arrival in the region. Thus this art does not belong exclusively to the latter and it is not the trace of their cultural and political hegemony. It was whide-spread on the whole forest area of "Akan", it covers three centuries and offers a great variety of styles. The study is made up of an ethnographic part which describes how the information and the corpus were collected. A stylistic part which analyses the shapes and sizes of the figures. Two historical parts which set this tradition one in the local history, the other in the regional and the international history and questions their possible interactions and influences
Guiblehon, Bony. "Violence et séduction : la société des hommes-panthères chez les Wè (Côte d'Ivoire)." Paris, EPHE, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004EPHE5040.
Full textThis research outlines the world-vision of the Panthermen Society among the Wè (Ivory Coast) as organized in accordance with two underlying principles: violence and seduction. The thesis is composed of seven chapters. The first concerns the implantation and the diffusion of this secret society which developed in a context of inter- and intra-lineage conflict and matrimonial uncertainty. The second describes the internal composition of this society. The third studies the different versions of its founding myth. The fourth and fifth chapters are devoted to the initiatory process: initiation rituals in the bush on the one hand, and the celebration of the novices’ return on the other. The sixth chapter is concerned with the novices’ songs which speak of the hardships of their initiation and of the beauty of women. The seventh and last chapter deals with the antagonism that opposes the Panthermen and Protestant Christians. Violence and seduction are shown to be closely linked, violence being but the response to the seduction of others’ women. The Panthermen, while seducers themselves, present themselves as the defenders of matrimonial stability, fighting against adultery whenever other are involved. It is by integrating the violence of others that one can become non-violent, and it is by seducing that on can become an anti-seducer. This is this contradiction that underlines th Panthermen’s vision of the world
Quagliariello, Chiara. "Modèles de naissance et de "nature" en conflit : les Sénégalaises en exil face à l'hôpital moderne." Paris 8, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA083962.
Full textMy thesis focuses on the implicit representations of (human) Nature in different models of birth. In particular, my work investigates the forms of dialogue, the reasons for conflict and the exchanges between reproductive models introduced and faced by the Senegalese women in exile in the maternity ward of the Poggibonsi hospital (Siena), one of the first in Italy to have proposed the model of "natural childbirth". Through a comparative study, my thesis highlights the idea of (human) Nature typical of our modern Western society. In this context, midwives face difficulties in their attempt to create an alliance with the Senegalese leaning on (biological) equalities supposed to go beyond (cultural) differences. Such biologizing "universalism" does not help to shorten the cultural distance which separates them from their foreign patients. The favor accorded to cultural relativism in a Western society, who is willing to be multi-cultural, is challenged – through practices – by a tendency to universalize our own conception of (humain) nature: a kind of naturalism, modern as well as “post-modern”. Although the biologic functioning of the body is certain and roughly the same for everyone, the idea that human nature could not be the same and has not the same relevance in every culture appears as a difficult challenge to “digest” for the western rationalism and, in particular, for the medical rationality
Balla, Ndegue Séraphin Guy. "L'onirique et les quêtes de bien-être: les entours des pratiques de guérison pentecôtistes à Yaoundé (Cameroun)." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/27649.
Full textThis thesis analyzes healing practices in the Pentecostal churches in beti’s sociocultural context in Yaoundé, particularly in the true Church of God of Cameroon. These Pentecostal churches have been increasingly multiplying across the country since the end of religious restrictions in 1990. This opening corresponds to the period where small businesses activities exploded, even in the religious field, in a situation of economic collapse. Many persons create their own church, with the pretention to break down witchcraft. In the etiological speeches, dreamlike stories emerge as the narrative form preferred by the actors to account for their situation. Witchcraft aetiology reflects the search for well-being, but, more fundamentally, it cannot be understood outside local theories of the word. Dreams details are interesting material that allows us to analyze these theories as well as stakeholders’ expectations. The thesis is organized in seven chapters. The first concerns theoretical and methodological guidelines (chapter 1). Then comes ethnography of contemporary Beti society based on the historical and symbolic influences of the state administration, of schooling and that of Catholic and Protestant Christianity (chapter 2). Nowadays, the rapid expansion of Pentecostalism breaks down the monopoly of the old churches, particularly that of Catholicism in Yaoundé (chapter 3). The dream seems to be an etiological springboard which makes people move, seeking meaning and healing in the Pentecostal churches (Chapter 4). I analyze dream as an ontological medium driving social action. Its interpretations reflects local theories of the world and social transformations. Dreams interpretations fuels the meaning given to the disease (Chapter 5). The family is at the centre of sorcery problems and a space of the creation and the appropriation of dreams’ meaning. I will then try to understand why women are so vulnerable to all sorts of problems in their families and to demonic possession in the Pentecostal churches (Chapter 6). Finally, I will analyze conversion as a healing condition, the meaning and the concrete fruits of healing (Chapter 7).
Bouttiaux, Anne-Marie. "La danse des hommes, la jubilation des esprits: masques guro de la région de Zuenoula, Côte d'Ivoire." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211693.
Full textBamony, Pierre. "Structure apparente, structure invisible : l'ambivalence des pouvoirs chez les Lyéla du Burkina Faso." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001CLF20011.
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