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Takács, Miklós. "Some Remarks on the Investigation of Traces of Transhumance in the Early Medieval Balkans." Historical Studies on Central Europe 2, no. 2 (December 22, 2022): 214–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.47074/hsce.2022-2.11.
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The study analyses the issue of the archaeological investigation of transhumance on the Balkan Peninsula in the early phase of the Middle Ages. More precisely formulated, our main question is why is this branch of investigation almost totally absent from the archaeology of the given period and geographical region? In the first part of the study, we give a brief overview of the history of prior research, pointing to the fact that although investigations into transhumance were largely carried out in other branches of science (history, linguistics ethnology), they may have potential impacts on the evaluation of archaeological material. In the second part of the study the factors are enumerated which are—in the author’s opinion—responsible for the described situation. At the end of the study, a potential solution is formulated for the described situation. A change is required in the focal areas of the research, with emphasis not only on the problems connected with the issue of transhumance but also on transgressing analyses based on national historical narratives. This change will—hopefully—create positive results through the initiation of research projects focusing on the discovery and excavation of sites in mountainous areas possibly connected with transhumance.
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Kovačević, Ivan, and Dragana Antonijević. "New rituals and New Serbian anthropology – The process of mutual constituting." Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 9, no. 2 (February 26, 2016): 417. http://dx.doi.org/10.21301/eap.v9i2.8.
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The intensive shift toward studying new rituals in the mid-80 is one of the key points of modernization and anthropologization of Serbian ethnology. The key initiator of this shift was the Ethnological society of Serbia, the scene of events were the yearly councils of the Ethnological society, and Papers in Ethnology, the society’s journal, published the first papers about new rituals. In the ambience of ethnology back then, wherein the foremost interests were concerned with recording memories of rural life in the 19th century, the innovative character of researching the send-off of retiring workers, entrance of children into the pioneer organization, send off of men to obligatory military service, the behavior in coffee shops or at the promenade, was more than obvious. From today’s perspective, thirty years later, the significance of these events for the constituting of the new Serbian anthropology is reviewed.
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Bargatzky, Thomas. "Chichicastenango." Anthropos 115, no. 1 (2020): 184–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2020-1-184.
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Das Buch von Gabriela Jurosz-Landa ist das Ergebnis einer Verbindung der Autorin, einer unabhängigen Ethnologin, mit den Quiché-Maya Guatemalas, die sich über ein Vierteljahrhundert entwickelt hat und schließlich im April 2015 zu ihrer Initiation als “day keeper” (ajq‘ij) führte, ein Amt, das sie für das westliche Verständnis als “shaman-priestess” übersetzt.
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Warner, Keith Douglass, Amara Brook, and Krista Shaw. "Facilitating Religious Environmentalism: Ethnology Plus Conservation Psychology Tools Can Assess an Interfaith Environmental Intervention." Worldviews 16, no. 2 (2012): 111–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853512x640833.
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Reliance on a limited number of methodologies may be distorting scholarship in religious environmentalism. This article describes a religious environmental educational intervention, uses a qualitative ethnological approach to describe the response of local congregations to this intervention, and uses a quasi-experimental, quantitative psychological methodology to assess the impact of this intervention on the behavior of religious congregational leaders. This article reports the impact of the Living Ocean Initiative, a ten-month interfaith environmental outreach intervention that engaged forty-nine diverse religious congregations and their leaders in California 2006-2007. This study indicates the value of studying religious environmental interventions, and suggests that carefully designed interventions may be able to increase religious environmentalism. It found that religious leaders were more inclined to engage in personal pro-environmental behavior within their congregations than pro-environmental behavior in the political realm. This study reports expressions of religious environmentalism at the congregational scale. It suggests that the potential of religious environmentalism to transform environmental beliefs and politics proposed by scholars and religious leaders may be unrealistic, yet it does demonstrate impacts of an intervention on pro-environmental behavior, thus clarifying some of the ambiguity in past correlational studies, and suggesting that religious environmentalism can help foster a more sustainable society.
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Koppel, Katre, Anastasiya Astapova, Aivo Põlluäär, Liis-Marii Roosnupp, and Keiu Telve. "Teadussündmus: Meil töö ja lõbu tasakaalus – viiendast rahvusvahelisest noorte folkloristide konverentsist „Folklore of Connections, Folklore of Conflicts“ / Balancing Work and Fun – the 5th International Young Folklorists’ Conference “Folklore or Connections, Folklore of Conflicts”." Studia Vernacula 7 (November 4, 2016): 220–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sv.2016.7.220-229.
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The 5th international conference of young folklorists “Folklore of Connections, Folklore of Conflicts” took place from 7-9 October 2015. The conference series started out as a one-day event in Tartu as a cooperation venture between the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore and the Department of Ethnology at the University of Tartu in 2011. On the initiative of Lithuanian colleagues and the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore and in cooperation with the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore at the University of Tartu, the next conference was held in Vilnius as a two-day event with a wider audience of international participants. Since 2013, Tartu Nefa Rühm – an organisation that unites students of ethnology and folkloristics – has also taken part in the organisation of the conference. In 2015, the Estonian Crafts Department of the University of Tartu’s Viljandi Culture Academy joined the circle of organisers, and Viljandi became the meeting place for the young researchers.The young folklorists’ conference aims to improve academic communication, cooperation and research in the field of folkloristics, offering advanced students and recently graduated young researchers from different countries the possibility to present their research to an international audience. This time the youngsters had the chance to discuss their research themes, concentrating on how folklore helps forge contact or favours conflict. Folklore unites people and groups; it is used to create identities and cultural models. However, there are many examples from the past that show how folklore has been used as a tool to draw (and redraw) boundaries.In addition to the experiences that the young scientists gained as presenters, organisers of panels or moderators, everyone had the chance to learn from renowned guest speakers William Westerman (USA) and Alexander Panchenko (Russia).
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Koppel, Katre, Anastasiya Astapova, Aivo Põlluäär, Liis-Marii Roosnupp, and Keiu Telve. "Teadussündmus: Meil töö ja lõbu tasakaalus – viiendast rahvusvahelisest noorte folkloristide konverentsist „Folklore of Connections, Folklore of Conflicts“ / Balancing Work and Fun – the 5th International Young Folklorists’ Conference “Folklore or Connections, Folklore of Conflicts”." Studia Vernacula 7 (November 4, 2016): 220–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sv.2016.7.220-229.
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The 5th international conference of young folklorists “Folklore of Connections, Folklore of Conflicts” took place from 7-9 October 2015. The conference series started out as a one-day event in Tartu as a cooperation venture between the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore and the Department of Ethnology at the University of Tartu in 2011. On the initiative of Lithuanian colleagues and the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore and in cooperation with the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore at the University of Tartu, the next conference was held in Vilnius as a two-day event with a wider audience of international participants. Since 2013, Tartu Nefa Rühm – an organisation that unites students of ethnology and folkloristics – has also taken part in the organisation of the conference. In 2015, the Estonian Crafts Department of the University of Tartu’s Viljandi Culture Academy joined the circle of organisers, and Viljandi became the meeting place for the young researchers.The young folklorists’ conference aims to improve academic communication, cooperation and research in the field of folkloristics, offering advanced students and recently graduated young researchers from different countries the possibility to present their research to an international audience. This time the youngsters had the chance to discuss their research themes, concentrating on how folklore helps forge contact or favours conflict. Folklore unites people and groups; it is used to create identities and cultural models. However, there are many examples from the past that show how folklore has been used as a tool to draw (and redraw) boundaries.In addition to the experiences that the young scientists gained as presenters, organisers of panels or moderators, everyone had the chance to learn from renowned guest speakers William Westerman (USA) and Alexander Panchenko (Russia).
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Koppel, Katre, Anastasiya Astapova, Aivo Põlluäär, Liis-Marii Roosnupp, and Keiu Telve. "Teadussündmus: Meil töö ja lõbu tasakaalus – viiendast rahvusvahelisest noorte folkloristide konverentsist „Folklore of Connections, Folklore of Conflicts“ / Balancing Work and Fun – the 5th International Young Folklorists’ Conference “Folklore or Connections, Folklore of Conflicts”." Studia Vernacula 7 (November 4, 2016): 220–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sv.2016.7.220-229.
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The 5th international conference of young folklorists “Folklore of Connections, Folklore of Conflicts” took place from 7-9 October 2015. The conference series started out as a one-day event in Tartu as a cooperation venture between the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore and the Department of Ethnology at the University of Tartu in 2011. On the initiative of Lithuanian colleagues and the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore and in cooperation with the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore at the University of Tartu, the next conference was held in Vilnius as a two-day event with a wider audience of international participants. Since 2013, Tartu Nefa Rühm – an organisation that unites students of ethnology and folkloristics – has also taken part in the organisation of the conference. In 2015, the Estonian Crafts Department of the University of Tartu’s Viljandi Culture Academy joined the circle of organisers, and Viljandi became the meeting place for the young researchers.The young folklorists’ conference aims to improve academic communication, cooperation and research in the field of folkloristics, offering advanced students and recently graduated young researchers from different countries the possibility to present their research to an international audience. This time the youngsters had the chance to discuss their research themes, concentrating on how folklore helps forge contact or favours conflict. Folklore unites people and groups; it is used to create identities and cultural models. However, there are many examples from the past that show how folklore has been used as a tool to draw (and redraw) boundaries.In addition to the experiences that the young scientists gained as presenters, organisers of panels or moderators, everyone had the chance to learn from renowned guest speakers William Westerman (USA) and Alexander Panchenko (Russia).
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Koppel, Katre, Anastasiya Astapova, Aivo Põlluäär, Liis-Marii Roosnupp, and Keiu Telve. "Teadussündmus: Meil töö ja lõbu tasakaalus – viiendast rahvusvahelisest noorte folkloristide konverentsist „Folklore of Connections, Folklore of Conflicts“ / Balancing Work and Fun – the 5th International Young Folklorists’ Conference “Folklore or Connections, Folklore of Conflicts”." Studia Vernacula 7 (November 4, 2016): 222–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sv.2016.7.222-229.
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The 5th international conference of young folklorists “Folklore of Connections, Folklore of Conflicts” took place from 7-9 October 2015. The conference series started out as a one-day event in Tartu as a cooperation venture between the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore and the Department of Ethnology at the University of Tartu in 2011. On the initiative of Lithuanian colleagues and the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore and in cooperation with the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore at the University of Tartu, the next conference was held in Vilnius as a two-day event with a wider audience of international participants. Since 2013, Tartu Nefa Rühm – an organisation that unites students of ethnology and folkloristics – has also taken part in the organisation of the conference. In 2015, the Estonian Crafts Department of the University of Tartu’s Viljandi Culture Academy joined the circle of organisers, and Viljandi became the meeting place for the young researchers.The young folklorists’ conference aims to improve academic communication, cooperation and research in the field of folkloristics, offering advanced students and recently graduated young researchers from different countries the possibility to present their research to an international audience. This time the youngsters had the chance to discuss their research themes, concentrating on how folklore helps forge contact or favours conflict. Folklore unites people and groups; it is used to create identities and cultural models. However, there are many examples from the past that show how folklore has been used as a tool to draw (and redraw) boundaries.In addition to the experiences that the young scientists gained as presenters, organisers of panels or moderators, everyone had the chance to learn from renowned guest speakers William Westerman (USA) and Alexander Panchenko (Russia).
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Klynova-Datsiuk, Halyna. "UKRAINIAN FREE UNIVERSITY IN GERMANY DURING THE DP PERIOD." Naukovì zapiski Nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu "Ostrozʹka akademìâ". Serìâ Ìstoričnì nauki 1 (December 17, 2020): 79–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.25264/2409-6806-2020-31-79-85.
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The article deals with the activities of the Ukrainian Free University in Germany (UFU) during the DP period (1945–1952). The process of resumption of the UFU operation is described. The initiator of this case was the last rector of the University of Prague and historian Vadym Shcherbakіvsky. Well-known scientists Dmytro Doroshenko, Petro Kurinny, Ivan Mirchuk, Panteleimon Kovaliv and others supported his initiative. It is noted that the Bavarian authorities and the American occupation were positive about the resumption of the university. The educational process in the higher education institution began in the summer semester of 1946. The structure of the Ukrainian Free University in Germany had two faculties: philosophy from the departments of philosophy and pedagogy, philology (Ukrainian, classical, and Slavic), history, geography, archeology, ethnology and art sciences, as well as law and socio-economic sciences from various departments. It is stated that the most active in the functioning of the university was the 1947–1948 academic year. As 492 students were educated and 95 teachers worked, a significant amount of educational literature was published. The university charter of 1948, which was the basic document regulating the functioning of the institution and giving it the right to broad autonomy and free publication, is also analyzed. The article also proves that in addition to educational work in the UFU, a publishing business was developed. Among the publications of the university was mainly educational literature, in particular textbooks for students (scripts), which were printed in cyclostyle. In order to inform students about the content of academic disciplines, the number of lectures, seminars, practical classes, lecture programs were published. To facilitate the study of educational material, university teachers issued lecture notes. Among such publications are lectures by M. Andrusiak “History of the Cossacks”, I. Mirchuk “Introduction to Philosophy”, V. Kubiyovych “Geography of Ukraine” and others. The UFU played an important role in preserving the national and cultural identity of the Ukrainian people and consolidating the Ukrainian scientific forces in exile.
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Macijauskaitė-Bonda, Jurgita, and Laima Anglickienė. "Trends in Contemporary Lithuanian Children’s Folklore Research." Aktuālās problēmas literatūras un kultūras pētniecībā: rakstu krājums, no. 26/2 (March 11, 2021): 80–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.37384/aplkp.2021.26-2.080.
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Contemporary children’s folklore is interesting and dynamic as it covers both traditional and new genres and reflects present-day realia as well as younger children’s and adolescents’ psychological world. The aim of this article is to discuss major stages and trends in contemporary Lithuanian children’s folklore research. The present study is based on analytical descriptive, and comparative methods. In Lithuania, the research into children’s folklore was started quite late in comparison to many other countries. The first scholarly studies on traditional children’s folklore were published by Pranė Jokimaitienė in the second half of the 20th century, whereas the research into contemporary children’s folklore was undertaken only in the last decade of the 20th century on the initiative of the folklorist Gražina Skabeikytė-Kazlauskienė. After 1990, when folklore material’s collection from children and adolescents was started, the Archive of Ethnology and Folklore at the Department of Cultural studies at Vytautas Magnus University enlarged by many examples of contemporary Lithuanian folklore. At the beginning of the 21st century, the material’s systematisation, analysis, and publication started; a few dissertations on children’s and youth folklore were successfully defended. In 2013, the monograph Contemporary Schoolchildren’s Folklore (Šiuolaikinis moksleivių folkloras) was published.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Initiation (ethnology)"
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Darnis, Pierre. "Lecture et initiation dans le récit bref cervantin." Phd thesis, Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II, 2006. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00116592.
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La première partie étudie la conception de la réception dans l'ensemble de l'œuvre cervantine. On mesure pourquoi l'auteur dénonce les récits chevaleresques, pastoraux et sentimentaux, coupables de provoquer une emprise fictionnelle exagérée et de proposer de dangereux modèles de comportements.Les Nouvelles exemplaires (Novelas ejemplares) leur répondent par la reprise de scénarios tirés des contes de fées et des mythes tragiques (2e).
L'exemplarité se définit par la poétique sous-jacente à ces deux modèles : celle de l'initiation (3e). La thèse dégage deux axes d'éducation : l'initiation à l'humanité et l'éducation sentimentale. Cervantès propose d'abord quelques normes d'une « chevalerie » modernisée: placé au cœur de la cité, le héros exemplaire est l'instrument d'une véritable « civilisation des mœurs ». Sur la question sentimentale, le conte merveilleux se révèle fort pertinent: sa trame permet de conduire nos protagonistes vers l'heureux mariage en les contraignant à adopter une posture volontariste.
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Gray, Stina. "Women of the Fäbod : An Ethnological Study of the Swedish Fäbod Culture at the Turn of the 20th Century." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för etnologi, religionshistoria och genusvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-166089.
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The purpose of this study is to explore the meaning of womanhood in relation to the Swedish fäbod culture at the turn of the 20th century. The study is based upon a questionnaire from 1928 and the material is collected from the archives at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm and the Institute for Language and Folklore in Uppsala. Drawing upon gender and ritual theories, the study intends to gain an understanding for what it meant to be a woman of the fäbod by examining how fäbod herdswomen were culturally shaped and initiated into women both in relation to their place in the fäbod community of herdswomen, but also in respect to the wider community and society of which they were a part of. The main conclusion of the study is that the journey into the fäbod woods can be seen as a rite of passage where adolescent girls going to the fäbod for the first time were initiated into the fäbod community of herdswomen. Womanhood is a cultural phenomenon in which women are culturally shaped and initiated into women not only by the codes, conceptions and values of the society at large, but also by the stories, customs and traditions of their local communities. The fäbod herdswomen were born into the gender power structures of a patriarchal society that sought to shape them into promising wives, and they were also women of the fäbod, initiated into the fäbod communitas, a form of female counterculture with its very own musical language, customs and traditions, and with its very own definitions of womanhood.
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Bonhomme, Julien. "Le miroir et le crâne : le parcours rituel de la société initiatique Bwete Misoko (Gabon)." Phd thesis, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), 2003. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00801512.
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Ce travail décrit le parcours rituel du Misoko, corporation de devins-guérisseurs (nganga) constituant la branche thérapeutique de la société initiatique Bwete (Gabon). Suite à une infortune sorcellaire, un profane est amené à franchir les rites de passage qui imposent la manducation des racines hallucinogènes d'eboga à des fins visionnaires. Cette initiation amorce un long parcours jalonné d'étapes rituelles. Au terme de celui-ci, l'initié pourra à son tour initier des novices et exercer le métier de devin-guérisseur. Afin de dégager la logique de la reproduction initiatique du Bwete Misoko, l'étude se focalise sur les configurations d'interaction et d'énonciation au principe de la construction de l'identité initiatique (franchissement des étapes rituelles, enseignement d'un savoir initiatique secret, maîtrise de la parole divinatoire, acquisition d'objets fétiches).
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Eile, Lena. "Jando : the rite of circumcision and initiation in East African Islam /." Lund : Plus ultra, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36657330q.
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Louis, Matthieu. "Ethnologie de l'aventure : pratiques contemporaines de la mobilité masculine et productions identitaires en Afrique de l'Ouest (Burkina Faso)." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014STRAG039.
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Cette thèse présente une ethnologie des phénomènes migratoires en Afrique de l’Ouest qui promeut une étude de la mobilité, localement baptisée « aventure », en tant qu’anthropologie de l’incertitude dont le dessein premier a été de saisir les identités labiles et vagabondes de migrants se désignant aventuriers – identité ramifiée à des pratiques, des désirs et des conceptions spécifiques de l’Ailleurs. En serrant de près le sens des discours des acteurs et des témoins rencontrés, en analysant des biographies fouillées d’aventuriers afin de restituer la dimension subjective du vécu migratoire, et en observant in vivo les creusets sociaux et les foyers de significations où naissent les désirs d’extraversion, nous donnons à voir et à comprendre les usages que font les aventuriers de l’Ici et de l’Ailleurs, ainsi que les rapports à eux-mêmes, aux autres et au monde qu’ils produisent. À rebours du poncif misérabiliste, nous dévoilons ainsi une philosophie de la mobilité qui nous incline à penser l’aventurier comme sujet-auteur de son existence et l’aventurisme comme un éthos et une forme rituelle d’esthétisation, de narration, de conquête et d’exposition de soiEthnology of the adventure. Contemporary practices of male mobility and identity buildings in West Africa (Burkina Faso) – This PhD thesis features an ethnology of migratory phenomena in West Africa which promotes a study of the mobility locally called “adventure” as an anthropology of the uncertainty. The initial purpose was to grasp labile and roaming identities of migrants who refer to themselves as adventurers – identity branched to specific practices, desires and conceptions of the Elsewhere. In approaching as closely as possible the meaning of the speeches of the actors and the witnesses, in analyzing thick biographies of adventurers in order to reproduce the subjective dimension of their migratory experience, and in observing in vivo the social contexts and the crucibles of meanings where the desires of extroversion arise, we give to see and understand the adventurers’ uses of the Here and the Elsewhere, as well as their relationships to themselves, to others and to the world they generate. Contrary to the cliché painting migrations in the most miserable way, thus we unveil a philosophy of the mobility that makes us inclined to think the adventurer as a subject-author of his existence and the adventurism as an éthos and a ritual form of self-aestheticization, self-narrative, self-conquest and self-exposure
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Chiousse, Sylvie. "Divins thérapeutes - La santé au Brésil revue et corrigée par les orixas." Phd thesis, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), 1995. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00003395.
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Après un historique du système de santé brésilien, des cultes afro-brésiliens et des africains au Brésil, le présent travail tente de montrer, d'un point de vue anthropologique, la cohérence du système de croyances de ces cultes et de quelques unes de leurs pratiques, entre autres thérapeutiques. L'étude porte alors essentiellement sur la cohérence des relations entre un orixa (entité divine) donné, la partie du corps humain qu'il est censé dominer et les vertus des plantes qui lui appartiennent. Sont également étudiées, sous leur aspect thérapeutique, les processus d'initiation et les transes. D'un point de vue plus sociologique, cette étude s'intéresse au système sanitaire brésilien, ses évolutions, et pointe les défaillances du système officiel dans la gestion des soins offerte aux patients.
Analysant les parcours (possibles) du malade (brésilien), les techniques qu'il va choisir d'utiliser pour gérer ses problèmes de santé – en faisant appel ou non aux pratiques thérapeutiques du culte afro-brésilien, il apparaît finalement qu'outre le fait de pouvoir se présenter comme un système de soins complémentaire à la médecine officielle, les pratiques thérapeutiques développées par les garants de ce culte et de cette culture s'affichent souvent et de plus en plus comme une alternative, voire un palliatif efficace face à une gestion officielle de la santé souvent défaillante – où les rejetés de la médecine (par manque de moyens financiers permettant d'y accéder) côtoient les rejetants de cette médecine (qui craignent les infections nosocomiales et autres fonctionnements quotidiens mal assurés).
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Forte, Jung Ran. "Chevauchés par les dieux : Initiations des Occidentaux aux cultes Vodun béninois : pratiques culturelles et trajectoires identitaires." Paris, EHESS, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007EHES0282.
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Cette thèse propose d’étudier les mutations d’une religion africaine, le Vodun, à partir de l’analyse d’un phénomène particulier : l’insertion des Occidentaux dans les milieux de pratique béninois. En examinant le parcours des Européens qui s’initient aux « secrets » du Bénin, il s’agira d’interroger les mutations que ce système religieux connaît depuis une dizaine d’années. L’objectif de l’étude est double : d’une part, saisir la dynamique de reproduction et de transformation de cet ensemble de cultes en rendant compte de ses configurations actuelles et, d’autre part, interroger le processus de construction de l’expérience religieuse, sur le plan collectif et sur le plan individuel. En décrivant les parcours initiatiques opéré par les Occidentaux, cette thèse cherche à montrer comment de nouvelles productions culturelles et des subjectivités novatrices sont produites par la rencontre d’« étrangers » avec l’univers VodunThis thesis examines the transformations experienced by the Vodun religion in the last decade, taking as a starting point the analysis of a singular phenomenon: the inclusion of Westerns in Beninese circuits of religious practice. Examining the initiatory paths of Europeans in Benin, the study addresses broader questions on the reproduction and change of a religious system. While identifying a peculiar dynamic of reproduction of such cults and drawing the major features and configurations of contemporary Vodun, the thesis questions how the religious experience is constructed, both individually and collectively. Describing spiritual journeys of Westerns who initiate themselves to the cults, this work shows how new cultural products and innovative subjectivities are fabricated in encounters of “foreigners” with Vodun worlds. The case of Westerns initiation rituals questions directly the “globalization of religious experience” and how new cultural identity are formed in such contexts
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Souyris, Bernard. "Bobo et Bwaba pendant et après la colonisation : identité et organisation collective des populations africaines de la boucle du Mouhoun pendant le XXe siècle." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010MON30032/document.
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Dans cette thèse, je me suis proposé de chercher à comprendre, en m'appuyant sur une étude critique d'écrits coloniaux et ethnographiques, comment se sont constituées les classifications des populations africaines à partir de présupposés raciologiques et les identifications réifiantes dans une région d'Afrique de l'ouest où le « mélange des races» avait frappé les premiers observateurs. Dans le même temps où ces représentations synchroniques s'imposaient, la conquête et l'administration coloniale ont contraint à des changements au niveau de l'activité productrice et du pouvoir ettransformé la vie collective et l'univers imaginaire et religieux. Une étude de terrain dans et autour du village de Sara situé dans la boucle du Mouhoun complète l'étude des écrits coloniaux et permet de mettre en évidence l'existence de réseaux de lignages au fondement de l'organisation sociale et politique, des distinctions qui en sont issues entre les Bwaba et les «étrangers », ce qui semble être à l'origine d'un sentiment d'appartenance à un groupe humain géographiquement indéfini, en Bwamu « Bwabawa .» Cette étude confirme également l'existence des transformations qui sont apparues pendantet après la colonisationBased on analysis of colonial and ethnographic studies, I tried to understand in this thesis how established the classifications of African populations from racial presumptions and reifying identifications in a region of western Africa where the "mixture of races" had struck the first observers. As these synchronous representations stood out, the conquest and the colonial administration forced changes to the productivity and to the existing power, transforming the people’s collective lives and their spiritual and religious worlds. A ground study in and around Sara's village, located in the loop of Mouhoun, completes the study of the colonial papers and highlights the existence of ethnic lineages in forming social and political structure, making distinctions between the Bwaba and the "foreigners", what seems to be at the origin of a feeling ofmembership of a geographically undefined human group, in Bwamu "Bwabawa.» This study also confirms the existence of transformations which appeared during and after colonization
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Mary, André. "Le défi du syncrétisme : le travail symbolique de la religion d'Eboga, Gabon." Paris, EHESS, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992EHES0030.
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L'ethno-sociologie des mouvements religieux modernes africains (prophetismes messianiques et cultes syncretiques) oblige a reconnaitre que l'mergence de la figure prophetique et les ressources du travail syncretique sont ici complementaires. Le champ religieux et therapeutique du gabon, et notamment le bwili des fang, offre un lieu priviligie d'analyse des strategies de legimitation adoptees par les prophetes visionnaires dans la lutte de concurrence qu'ils engagent par rapport au pouvoir blanc et aux pouvoirs traditionnels (grands inities, devins-guerisseurs, sorciers). Les metamorphoses que subissent les principaux schemes de la matrice culturelle traditionnelle (genealogie et initiation, dette sacrificielle et sorcellerie) en s'appropriant les figures de la dramaturgie chretienne, la recomposition des voies alternatives de la vision et de la possession liee au deplacement des enjeux de l'initiation, la recherche de formes de vie communautaire repondant aux impasses du proces d'individualisation, permettent d'eclairer la logique syncretique du travail de bricolage par lequel les petits entrepreneurs de biens de salut font face aux nouvelles demandes du marche religieuxThe ethno-sociology of modern african religious movements (messianic prophetism and syncretist cult) leads to recognize the complementary character of the prophetic figure and the ressources of syncretic work. The religious and therapeutic field of gabon, in particular the bwiti fang, represents a privileged area for the analysis of the legitimation strategies adopted by visionary prophets in their competitive fight relatively to while power and traditional powers (initiates, diviners, witch doctors, sorcerers). The metamorphoses undergone by the main schemes of the traditional cultural matrix (genealogy and initiation, sacrificial debt and witchcraft) as they appropriate the figures of christian dramaturgy, the recomposition of the alternative ways of vision and possession, linked with the displacement of stakes in initiation, the search for forms of communal life as a solution to the deadlock resulting from the process of individualisation, all these elements enable us to throw light on the syncretic logic of "bricolage" by means of which the charismatic leaders dealing in salvation commodities meet the new demands of the religious market
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Fouchet, Eugénie. "Enfances handicapées : une liminarité indépassable ? Une approche ethnocritique de la littérature de jeunesse." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LORR0070/document.
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Ce travail interroge les représentations narratives et iconographiques des personnages de l'enfant et de l'adolescent handicapés moteurs, en littérature de jeunesse contemporaine. L’étude porte sur un corpus varié d’albums, de bandes dessinées, de romans ainsi que de pièces de théâtre. Nous proposons une approche ethnocritique de ces textes, approche qui croise poétique des textes littéraires et anthropologie du symbolique. La première partie de notre thèse se focalise sur le parcours initiatique du personnage. Nous montrons ainsi comment l’enfant ou l’adolescent handicapé se construit au travers de cosmologies enfantines et adolescentes que le destin narratif (et/ou iconique) du personnage contribue à recréer ou à refaçonner. Il s’agit alors de porter une attention particulière à son rapport aux jeux, à l’art, à la littératie ou encore à l’imaginaire. La deuxième partie questionne les usages culturels et symboliques dont le corps handicapé du personnage est investi. Se manifestent ainsi deux postures opposées (parfois complémentaires) : l’une centrée sur la sur-visibilité (et même parfois sur l’anormalité/anomalie) du corps handicapé et l’autre centrée, à l’inverse, sur son effacement ou son euphémisation, et donc sur une forme de liminarité plus ou moins sublimée. Nous tenterons de montrer comment ces deux postures sont souvent conduites à dialoguer en fait, notamment à travers le rapport texte/ images des livres. Quels sont les enjeux éthiques et éducatifs d'une « stylisation » littéraire du handicap et des formes d'ensauvagement symbolique de ses représentations contemporaines ? Et quelles sont les stratégies de dépassement et/ou de transcendance du handicap qu’offrent les activités ludiques, oniriques et ritiques ? Se dévoilerait-il ainsi un nouveau regard, un nouvel art ?This thesis is a study of the narrative and iconographic representations of physically handicapped children and teenagers in contemporary fiction for children and young adults. The corpus under study includes picture books, comic books, novels and plays. We propose an ethnocritical approach to these texts, based on both a poetics of the literary text and an anthropological approach to the symbolic. The first part of the thesis focuses on the process of initiation of the character. We show how the handicapped child or adolescent constructs his/her identity within the framework of child or adolescent cosmologies which are to some extent recreated or reshaped by the narrative (or iconographic) destiny of the character. Particular attention will be paid to the role of games, art, deep literacy, and imagination. The second part examines the cultural and symbolic representations surrounding the body of the handicapped person. From this point of view, two opposite (but sometimes complementary) attitudes appear: the first one focuses on the over-visibility (and sometimes even on the abnormality/anomaly) represented by the handicapped body and the other, inversely, on its erasure or euphemisation, and thus on its more or less sublimated liminal status. We will attempt to demonstrate how the relationship between text and image often leads to a dialogue between these two attitudes. What is at stake from an ethical and educational point of view in a literary “stylization” of physical handicaps and in the forms of symbolic return to a wild state involved in contemporary representations? And what strategies for overcoming or transcending physical handicaps are offered by activities involving play, dreaming or critical distance? Is it possible to detect a new attitude, a new art?
Books on the topic "Initiation (ethnology)"
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Beaubrun, Mimerose P. Nan dòmi, le récit d'une initiation vodou. La Roque d'Anthéron: Vents d'ailleurs, 2010.
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Riti di iniziazione: Antropologi, stoici e finti immortali. Milano: Raffaello Cortina editore, 2014.
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Lacoste-Dujardin, Camille. Le voyage d'Idir et Djya en Kabylie: Initiation à la culture kabyle. Paris, France: L'Harmattan, 2003.
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Aboriginal men of high degree: Initiation and sorcery in the world's oldest tradition. Rochester, Vt: Inner Traditions, 1994.
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Watson, Lyall. Gifts of unknown things: A true story of nature, healing, and initiation from Indonesia's "Dancing Island". Rochester, Vt: Destiny Books, 1991.
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Kao, Wiyao Blanzoua. Anthropologie de la parenté kabiye: La valeur archeologique de l'intronisation du kondo. Lomé?]: [publisher not identified], 2008.
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Oranekwu, George Nnaemeka. The significant role of initiation in the traditional Igbo culture and religion: An inculturation basis for pastoral catechesis of Christian initiation. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, 2004.
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Kratz, Corinne Ann. Affecting performance: Meaning, movement, and experience in Okiek women's initiation. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.
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Fofana, Abdoulaye Sayon. Le kania soli: Ode et danse traditionnelles guinéennes. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015.
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