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Matsanga, Mackossot Ginette Flore. "De l'inscription de la palabre traditionnelle dans le théâtre francophone d'Afrique Centrale : (les Punu du Gabon)." Paris 13, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA131029.
Full textTraditional palaver for the Punu people is a social phenomenon, a meeting, a gathering intended to settle down problems which may bring about disorder in society. It is based on an exchange of words. As a codified speech, palaver can only be apprehended within a particular environment. The manifestation of this phenomenon discloses some elements of drama such as dialog, gesture, silence and dancing. We have studied traditional palaver as a social drama basing our work on two transcribed and translated texts. In that framework, the palaver's analysis has led us to realize how speech changes into action and meaning thanks to its countless aspects. We have then come to the conclusion that oral tradition inspires francophone African drama a lot, notably Gabonese one. To that end, "La Mort de Guykafi", a play by Vincent de Paul Nyonda has helped us justify that assertion
Moundounga-Kombila, Philippe. "Objets exogènes et dynamique sociale." Aix-Marseille 1, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989AIX10057.
Full textThough generally made responsable for the debasement of the cultural identity of native populations, in gabon the opening up to the western world by the adoption of materials objects bringing in the values of europe and of institutions of interposed moral and juridical rules contributes, in suc fields as previously defined, to the perpetuation of the cultural identity of the punu's. Insofar as far from abolishing the scopes of reference and the network of solidarity inherited from the forefarthers, such institutions make use of them and procedeed by amalgamation, they form a new existential basis and a means of integration to a society now dual in its essence because opened up to both western an african values
Tomba, Diogo Amevi Christine Cerena. "Étude d'un genre de la littérature orale : la devise (kûmbù) chez les Punu du Gabon." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015INAL0022/document.
Full textThis research study focuses on language and oral literature of the Punu people in the south of Gabon. The study explores the punu styles of literature in particular praise-poetry (devise), which has been, up to now, very rarely studied. Considered to be a form of praise by which an individual declaims his identity, praise-poetry allows an individual to stand out and express his vision of the world.This thesis is divided into five chapters which together provide a theoretical attempt of this literary genre in the society. Taking the notion of permanence as a defining criterion, the study highlights the discursive properties of praise-poetry and its functions. Added to this is a unique corpus of clan and individual praise poems, transcribed, translated and commented
Nzamickale, Damien. "L’art oratoire chez les Bapunu du Gabon : pour une rhétorique interactionnelle." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LYO20009.
Full textIn ritualized encounters of the Bapunu in Gabon, there is no doubt that speech is always a communicative event. This dissertation deals with two types of speech events – traditional weddings and customary trials. In these two different though related events, the author gives evidence of a very specific interactional rhetoric. He shows that punu oratory presents aspects of dialogue and aspects of monologue all at the same time. In fact, each orator comes to take the « speechfloor » in order to answer other orator’s contradictions. But these dual contributions to the interaction are intrinsically tirades where argumentation is displayed, and some rhetoric processes are designed to seek the public’s reaction. On the whole, the demonstration leads us to a comprehensive and insightful approach to Punu oratory
Ndombet, Wilson-André. "Histoire des Ajumba du Gabon : du XVe siècle à 1972." Paris 1, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA010572.
Full textThis thesis titled "history of the ajumba from fifteen th century to nineteen seventy two aim sat the restitution of the this people; nowdays becoming extinct from its protohistorical and historical origins; history of the wars, migrations, clannic divisions and reconstructions. This thesis also retraces the history of the ajumba socio-political, religious and economical organisation, particularly in the middle of the nineteen th century and from this latter till nineteen seventy two, throug the different changes that the ajumba have known : the appearance of supra-clannic power and dynastic power under the impulse of a strong man called amburwe y'owanga; the introduction of a capitalist economy that changes the ways of the life of the ajumba and introduces a new type of social relations
Okwa-Ondo, Peter Abraham. "La pirogue et le moteur : essai d'interprétation des modifications introduites par une technologie nouvelle chez les peuples de l'Ogooué et les lacs, l'exemple des Fang (Centre-Ouest du Gabon)." Tours, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001TOUR2003.
Full textKialo, Paulin. "Anthropologie de la forêt : populations pové et exploitants forestiers français au Gabon /." Paris : l'Harmattan, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41159982n.
Full textOmanda, Rosa. "Elements morphosyntaxiques du galwa langue bantoue du Gabon et éléments pour un dictionnaire bilingue." Nancy 2, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007NAN21006.
Full textThis thesis studies a bantu language of Gabon, Central Africa, the galwa (B. 11 c) which is a part of the B. 10 language family. This African language belongs to the bantu group of the Benoué-Congo nib family which is itself a part of the Niger-Congo language grouping. This report first establishes the phonological base system and briefly introduces the morphophonology of the language. The syntaxmorphology characteristics of the language are covered as well as the processes of word formation (derivation and composition) and various grammatical categories and their place in the structure of noun and verb phrasing. Finally, this thesis covers the complexity of language wording and introduces a lexical model
Plancke, 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
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
Righou, Nestor Ide. "Les Nzèbi du Gabon, des origines à 1915 : essai d'étude historique." Paris 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA010542.
Full textKoumba, Célestine. "Formes et modèles de la sociabilisation chez les Mitsogho du Gabon au XXe siècle." Thesis, Metz, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011METZ009L.
Full textThe goal of this thesis is to describe the “coming out of ethnicism” of the tsogho culture in Gabon, through the strategic examination of its modes of socialization. As such, it brings together the socialization processes whose forms and models have been transformed throughout the 20st century. In the traditional Gabonese societies, the children socialization, provided by a customary model, was based on endogenous processes. The initiations, a decisive moment in this process, included the participation in the different activities of everyday life. Going through initiation had as a final goal the integration of the children into the environment where they belong. If the first acquisitions are still achieved in the initiatory corporations today, the seconds are, from now on, made by school, church, government and mass media. With the advent of capitalism, school, writing, church and government, a change of model has been made all at once in the economic, religious, educational, political and media related forms of socialization. Because of school, cinema, video games, Internet, television and press, the powerful multimedia means took over the education of the individuals and are used to carry the knowledge that doesn’t reproduce the customary cultural models. They are the means of spreading new mythologies which names are “success” and “prosperity” associated with the power of money, supreme incarnation of what Joseph Tonda conceptualized with the notion of “modern Sovereign”. It is a mixed power that includes, other than money, the “body-sex”, God, the Devil, products and witchcraft. Produced by this power, these mythologies maintain today their power both destabilizing and structuring for the socialization processes of the tsogho children. The multiple accusations of witchcraft, vampirism, that nowadays come along the life of the tsogho families, whatever their social class, education level or religious beliefs are, show the effects of the “modern sovereignty” that rules the individuals and groups in the whole Gabonese society
Codjo, Rawambia Léopold. "Histoire des Galwa du Gabon, dès avant le XVIIIe jusqu'à la fin du XIXe siècle : du temps d'Abundje et d'Olando-Nchuwa à celui de Nkomb'Ademba." Paris 1, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA010648.
Full textEngone, Ndong Callixte. "La communauté hausa du Gabon, 1930-1990 : le commerce et l'islam dans la construction de son identité en région d'Oyem et sa marginalisation." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq26062.pdf.
Full textEngueng, Ondo Anatole Christian. "La double réception de la culture traditionnelle et de la culture occidentale dans les sociétés en voie de développement : la production interculturelle chez les Fang du Gabon." Rennes 2, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998REN20034.
Full textThe twofold reception of traditional and western cultures relies on the intercultural production within a population of Africa continent, in this case the Fang of Gabon. Founded on an ethnographical field, the reception theories are essentially based on the psychology of media receivers and they allow us to define and understand the behaviours of the members of a given cultural and speech community within the contexts of intercultural communication. The twofold reception is based on a population not only imbued with its own culture but also with the one of other Gabonese and African communities. However at the top of the main framework of the twofold reception are the relationships with the western culture. These intercultural relationships result from colonization and from current modern influences (Europe and the United States of America). The causes of rejections, negotiations and reappropriations in the contexts of intercultural communication can be explained by the reconstruction of the social reality. The aim of the first part is to look into the history of Fang society and study the making of sense of the first intercultural contacts during colonization. The emphasis on the impact of colonial government, schools and modern skills, ways of life, conversion to christianism, trade and others. The second part focuses on the traditional means of communication peculiar to the Fang (mvett, tales, legends, proverbs, traditional rejoicing songs) and to the western world (radio and television). It is a study about the respective influences of those means of communication within that community. The last part presents the new experimental field and shows the extent of the intercultural production in the contemporary Fang society. It is based on the thematically analysis of audio-visual works and it studies the different perceptions of the receivers about the future of the traditional culture when they are confronted with the phenomena of interculturality
Mifune, 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
Matimi, Jean-Christophe. "Tradition et innovations dans la construction de l'identité chez les Shamaye, Gabon, entre 1930 et 1990." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq26079.pdf.
Full textMve-Engonga, Daniel. "La mort fang au Gabon : un phénomène social total à l'épreuve des interactions tradition/modernité : essai de méthodologie thanatique." Besançon, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001BESA1013.
Full textZame, 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
Bahuchet, Serge. "Les Pygmées Aka et Baka : contribution de l'ethnolinguistique à l'histoire des populations forestières d'Afrique Centrale." Paris 5, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA05H072.
Full textWith an ethnolinguistical approach i question the cultural relationship between two pygmy groups with different languages, Baka from Cameroon (oubanguian speaking community) and aka from C. A. R. (Bantu). By using a very wide vocabulary thematicaly arranged (nature, plants, animals, techniques, society, religion, music) i am able to show the common origin of both aka and Baka from a unique ethnic group nammed Baakaa. They separate while encoutering Bantu c10 villagers (for the aka) and oubanguian villagers (from Gbanzili-sere subgroup). By taking into account vocabularies from related languages spoken by non-pygmy groups, i look for the conditions of pygmy linguistical "mutation" : the association between these societies was based upon religious conceptions, due to both differences in appearance and forest specialization of the pygmies, obvious through the common vocabulary. Before their association with villagers, Baakaa pygmies were already forest hunter-gatherers. Lexical analysis and ethnographical comparisons give data to examine phenomenon of borrowing and transfer between differing societies, thus contributing to the more general problems of lexical evolution. The second important point resides in the lexical marks of an origin from eastern Congo basin for the Baakaa pygmies
Nguema, Minko Emmanuelle. "Au-delà de la rancune et du pardon : une anthropologie de l'idéologie politique au Gabon." Aix-Marseille 1, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008AIX10086.
Full textMinko, Mve Bernardin. "La société gabonaise entre tradition et post-modernité : hétéroculture et dysculturation." Nice, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001NICE2003.
Full textStructures of welcome of co-residence, co-descendance and co- transcendance are henceforth recogniz d as workshops of apprenticeship of the socialization. This recognition being acquise, it remains a stage again more difficult for cross : the determination of approaches to realize a modernity that would be based on lived it Fang-Ntumu and would draw its force in their aspirations. It is this sense that has to be gauged the contribution of this book. .
Limete, Jonas. "Histoire traditionnelle, éducation coutumière et enseignement occidental, dans la société nzébi, au Gabon, de 1910 à 1980." Nantes, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009NANT3003.
Full textThis dissertation explores the impact of Western schooling on the history and traditional education of the Nzèbi of Gabon since the introduction of colonial schools in 1910. In this three-part study, the author examines 1) Nzèbi society, education, and historical consciousness in the eve of colonization, 2) various phases in the development of formal education from 1910 to 1980, and 3) the role played by Western education on the develop of global Nzèbi society. To assess the repercussions of Western formal education on this global society, this thesis draws on a variety of materials, including oral, archival, and published sources. In particular, the author engages some key doctoral works devoted specifically to Nzèbi society. Finally, this thesis demonstrates that the history taught in schools and the one lived by the globalizing Nzèbi constitute two different worlds whose mode of articulation remains to be invented
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
Kialo, Paulin. "Pové et forestiers face à la forêt gabonaise : esquisse d'une anthropologie comparée de la forêt." Paris 5, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA05H059.
Full textThe Pové people (a Gabonese ethnic group living in Ogooué-Lolo province) and French forestry workers have a very different conceptualization of what the "forest" is. Working from this difference, this thesis lays out a sketch, and develops some key principles, of a working anthropology of the concept "forest". Each of the two populations studied has a different cognitive model of what the forest is and what it does. In effect a cognitive model is ot the "forest" is a model of how the "forest" is humanized or brought under human control. And there is a long history in each case of how these groups relate to the forest. These models are identified as (i) pro-forest model and (ii) and anti-forest model, but this is just a rough first approximation. The real interest lies not in the extreme formulation of thesis and anti-thesis but in the various subtle ideological postures and practices that occupy the middle ground between the extremes. These are illustrated by drawing on examples from close at hand, namely the Pygmy populations of Gabon, and various ecologically-oriented NGOs that have projects in Gabon. The thesis also considers examples from historically more distant cultures such as the Pharos in Egypt and the Druids in Europe. By considering these various case studies, and using yhe comparative linguistic methodology familiar from Bantu research, the study proposes a model which comprises a comparative anthropology of the forest
Mary, André. "Le défi du syncrétisme : le travail symbolique de la religion d'Eboga, Gabon." Paris, EHESS, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992EHES0030.
Full textThe 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
Mengue, Obame Irène. "Socialisation familiale et réussite sociale au Gabon : cas de la famille "populaire" fang." Paris 5, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA05H017.
Full textIn Gabon, and particularly into some Fang's "popular" families, the social success seems to refer to acquisition of material goods and money, guarantees of economic success, which, in last analysis, is a source of prestige. This representation of the social success is built and maintained by dominant actors of the social hierarchy. These social actors materialize it by the notorious exhibition of the singular goods and values (vehicles, villa, etc). For fang families, this material culture of success fitted in their daily life since the colonization and the advent of the culture of revenue. On the basis of the values inculcated in the family sphere, and on the basis of the akomga which is an endogenous practice, whose objective seems to be the favorisation of the actions of an individual in the direction of a better result, via tactics of fight against the school failure, family socialization is the place of the demonstration of various strategies complex and heterogeneous, whose finality is to arrive at the social success. This socialization implies an overlap of logics of the social holism and logics of individualization, developing the idea of independence and autonomy. The product of this socialization associated with secondary socialization of the young adults gives rise to two kinds of individuals : the standardized individual and the reconstituted individual. The first one is inclined with the éthos of Community solidarity excluding any process of autonomisation for oneself. For the second one, Community habitus, anti-individualist, who promotes the sense of duty, and responsibility with respect to the others, continues to dominate; it is consequently revalued, reformed by positive criticisms. However, these two kinds of individuals are indebted of their family. And this feeling of debt is result in a series of rules of reciprocal dependence between the members of the same family
Martin, Nieto Luis. "Psychopathologie de la vie quotidienne en Guinée équatoriale et au Gabon : diagnostics et moyens thérapeutiques." Paris 8, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA083229.
Full textSince the beginning of time, the Fang people have known how to take advantage of the elements of nature for health, strength and harmony. Today, oppressed by a traumatic colonial history, having left their original environment to settle in cities, the Fang feel weak and sick. This affliction, generated by an exhausting daily life in the grip of dictatorships, political fears and a poor management of economy, alters the same anthropology. Out of a corpus of 336 random cases, over a period of twelve years, four in Equatorial Guinea and eight in Gabon, our research has dealt with the study of psychological suffering in those two countries. To understand our patients, we had to analyse of their founding tales, where ‘’Bwiti’’ is present as a phenomenon of identity in their world of rites and beliefs. “Witchcraft”, ‘’évu’’, ‘’possession by evil spirits’’, ’’taboos’’,. . . These recurrent words during our consultations reveal a major subjacent problem in a traditional mentality. Psychotherapists and health professionals, especially healers also called ‘’nganga’’ have to put their efforts together to provide people with renewed health, hope and self-fulfillment. Thus, every single situation of critical suffering, whatever it originates from poverty, belief or ignorance, offers the opportunity of a new start, to enable people to get back their original strength and energy
Loubamono-Bessacque, Guy Claver. "Les populations du bassin de la Lesibi (Gabon) du début : du XVIIIème à la fin du XIXème siècle." Paris 1, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA010639.
Full textThe Lesibi bassin is situated to the south east of the present Gabon republica. Differents groups of populations that place, especially the Ikota, Ondasa, Ambama and Basamaye. Before their seattlement in the Lesibi bassin, those populations lived in the north west of the present Congo republica (Ambama) and to the north east of the Gabon of nowaday. It's not possible now in the present state of the research, to determine the seattlement date of those populations in that area. We just knew, in the XVIIIe century, the were established there. Those populations maintained different relations among themselves and with the others neighbor inhabitants. They share many common civilization characteristics. Untill the end of the XIXe century, the foreigners, the Europeans, hadn't trampled down the Lesibi Bassin if we except the Italian crossing Attilio Pecile and Giacomo Savorgnan Di Brazza. In return this territory since the XVIIe century probably, received manufactured products. Those ones were valued on the local populations, who even sold their yellow-men to have some
Rekanga, Jean-Paul. "Essai de grammaire Himba (langue bantoue du Gabon, B36)." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211695.
Full textMogomba, Guy Serge. "Ethnoécologie des Mitsogho du Gabon : Ethnobotanique et Ethnozoologie." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LORR0309/document.
Full textOur study focused on the sociocultural use of fauna and flora amongst the Mitsogho of Gabon. In other terms, it puts the man in relationship with his environment. It was about demonstrating the way of which the Mitsogho of Gabon conceive, conceptualize and activate their relationship with the visible and invisible world, notably plant and animal. The study showed the emerging of two approaches contrasted in relation to an hypothetical relationship between man and nature : the first approach being the so call "traditional", consider according to the "indigenous" theories (Claude Lévi-Strauss) and to the demonstration of Philippe Descola, that all creatures are part of a continuum of which the differentiated elements must maintain relations of conciliation and equitable exchange, where the human being is particularly defined as integral part of the biotopes and the ecosystems ; the second, the one of the industrialized societies, based on an explicit antagonism in the founding texts (the Genesis in the Christian tradition), of the so call "revealed" religion that positions the human beings as "masters" and "managers" of the creation. Such an attitude is the motor of all policies so call "sustainable development" or not. The perspective is diachronic and it aims to show what happens when two opposite ways of being, of thinking and of acting (MEPA) come into collision, in a context that we define globally as "colonial"
Ngombo, Lepopa Amélie Blanche. "Itinéraires thérapeutiques et représentations de la santé à l’enfance chez les Nzèbi du Gabon." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LORR0245/document.
Full textOur thesis door that covers the plurality of therapy for the treatment of childhood diseases in Nzebi of Gabon is interested in description and analysis of the management of medicines seeking behavior in urban and area rural. The therapeutic space in which our object integrates, refers to two types medicines : The biomedicine and traditional medicine, but ordinary care. The choice to study together the couple combining biomedicine and traditional medicine comes from the social context of the studied company which combines daily with both medicines for healing and provide care. This complex and sometimes ambiguous situation offers a double interpretation of the healing phenomenon, because the interpretation of the disease, according to the agents of each medicine overlaps or not. This approach redefines the composition and of observable treatments administered to children. Through semi-structured interviews (80) and direct observations made during three years, we show how Nzebi face the child’s illness choose a therapeutic route. The route selection is done taking into account the cultural aspects, social and economic. Evoking the actors, methods and tools of every medicine, we highlight the scope of intervention of each
Mbamba, Mitamba Oswald. "Les usages contemporains des totems au Gabon (population nzèbi)." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LORR0054/document.
Full textThe study of the relation between man and nature is not a new fact, particularly regarding the triptych man / animals / plants. Indeed, many works in social sciences allowed to update various levels of understanding in how the human being highlights the flora and fauna in his daily activities. It is the case of our subject which concerns the uses and the representations of the totems among Nzèbi population, in Gabon. However, what makes the value of a research is the specificity and its capacity to enrich the science. Therefore, our research focuses on the speeches and the legends about totems in the nzèbi society. Nzèbi people which lives in three provinces on nine that count the Gabon, have guarded an important part of their old inheritance, in particular the one who binds them to its totems. Enriched by its oral tradition, this society conveys the main part of their knowledge on the totems by an education which takes place in a traditional frame that is in particular places and circumstances. Totems have always been a key element of the nzèbi cosmogony that is since the creation of the universe to today, as presented in the myth Koto which redraws the history of Nzèbi, but today, this society does not live outside the contemporary evolutions. It is in this perspective that our study also tries to analyse the present issues in nzèbi society, to understand the current state of the uses and the representations of the totems in the nzèbi contempory society
Nguema, Akwe Olivier. "Pour une anthropologie anarchiste des techniques du corps dans la sorcellerie sportive : le Mesing chez les Fang du Gabon." Thesis, Saint-Etienne, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013STET2178.
Full textThis thesis focuses on a diachronic analysis of the relationship between anarchism, the techniques of body witchcraft in the practice of the Mesing and martial arts in Gabon. This study focuses exclusively on the fang ethno linguistic group of Gabon. The aim of this work is to demonstrate the link between his fields of study.Indeed, what combat sports reports and witchcraft of the Fang of Gabon could they keep with a political project born in Europe, in the wake of the enlightenment and the moment where this same Europe preparing,on behalf of the lights just (progress and reason), to impose on the whole of Africa the morgue and the mercantile baseness of his domination. Anarchism emerged in the 19th century in Europe. And there is better, over time, what, from his place, his time and his nature, he was across all the human experiments, a radical alternative to the world where he was born, the affirmation and the hope of an otherness, both indoor andoutdoor, in the corridors of Europe and the Americas as in the intensity of resistance to imperialism and domination of colonial enterprises. This work strives to show how the Fang of Gabon and elsewhere, along with many others and multiple way, mobilized all their knowledge magic and warriors in anarchic form to resist colonial rule
Akare, Biyoghe Béatrice. "Conceptions et comportements des Fang face aux questions de fécondité et de stérilité : regard anthropologique sur une société patrilinéaire du Gabon." Thesis, Metz, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010METZ002L/document.
Full textIn regard to the ethno sociologic situation of Black Africa today, it is evident their is a new mode of thought and life which has strayed away from heritage. Considering this incessent loss of customs, certain cultural values have endured, despite the current trends of modernity. For instance, the strong sense of value to continue the family lineage. This thesis sets out to examine the patrilinear society of Gabon- the Fang, in relation to the social solutions which contribute to the problematic of fecundity and sterility. The group composed of the fecundity and sterility which entailed the two-sided focus of this problematic as it is a strong fibre of the social tissue of the society, which is also examined alongside the political organisation. Within this perspective, the analysis of particular cultural forms of the question of fecundity and sterility by the Fang of Gabon will not just be viewed in a monographic manner on those which withdraw and restrain from significant deeping and change in modernity of culture, in light of the intercultural confrontation by other societies. Thus, it will also entail an analysis which strive to describe a model destined to clarify, cross-examine the different composants, all cultural forms of interest to this question and all termes of this social resolution. As well as, at the state level and ethnic level. As sterility is often viewed from a clinical point of view which accounts for a biological incapacity attributable to illness. However it is also perceived as deprivation, an a curse and punishment to suffer. Which this thesis has employed with an anthropological and cultural perspective
Boulingui, Dieu-donné. "La représentation sociale de la circoncision à travers le discours selon la mobilisation des insertions psychosociales : une étude comparée entre le Gabon et la France." Dijon, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008DIJOL011.
Full textCircumcision is an almost universal practice, in so much as it is at work in a considerable number of countries: in the Arab world, Israël, the United States, etc. Nevertheless, it acquires a specific character in Black Africa, where it occupies the function of a true rite of passage. As such, it constitutes a practice which puts to the forefront notions of social integration and masculine identity. Today, the confrontation of cultures results in the “deritualising” of circumcision. This operation is thus “juvenilised” and “medicalised”, in other words practised more particularly on young children and in hospitals. In this work, we attempt to understand this transition from a “traditional” to a more “westernised” conception by comparing the representations of subjects living in a country where this practice constitutes the norm and those of expatriates in a country where the dominant discourse rejects that norm. It is a question of studying the effect of the confrontation of two conceptions concerning the social representation of an object with a strong value in terms of identity. In order to operationalise this situation of confrontation, we addressed Gabonese subjects living in France, whom we compared to other Gabonese subjects living in Gabon. In practical terms, semi-directive interviews were carried out with forty Nzebi students whose academic levels ranged from bachelor’s degree to doctorate. The results presented are on two different levels of analysis: the first one, which is explored by means of syntagmatic and phrastic analysis, gives access to the attitude and the anchorage of the subject in relation to the object. The second level, which is explored by means of propositional analysis and ALCESTE software, gives access to the field of representation
Mogoa, Boussengui Amélie. "Rapports de force : usages et circulation des objets rituels en milieu Mitsogho au Gabon." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015MON30025.
Full textFrom the written documents, numerous assessments, and field surveys performed from 2007 to 2013, I shall analyze in this Thesis the religious and ritual objects among the Mitsogho people in Gabon, the meaning that they receive in their itinerary between cities and villages, as well as ratio of power that they create in families, in the community, and at the national level including the collection of these objects by the political body. In other words it is a matter of understanding the multiple, the transmissions of these objects from one generation to another in the framework of lineage, in the trans-border exit as defined by the initiated people, for functions beyond the context of manufacturing, and their circulation between the markets and customers (the initiate people and the nganga-misoko, for instance), and just as implicit or explicit battle that affect them. Through the local speeches, we can see that the objects embody a sort of social and symbolic meaning the initiate people, according to the path they follow, and that sicknesses, curses, death, failure, and unemployment etc…often crystallize on the use of religious and ritual objects, word of a so-called witchcraft
Ruyter, Magali de. "Musiques et musiciens en « Pays Mobongo » : fondements musicaux et performatifs des dynamiques interethniques dans les monts du Chaillu (Gabon)." Thesis, Paris 10, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA100009/document.
Full textIn southern Gabon and neighboring Congo, Babongo Pygmies form a dispersed group whose homogeneity remains to be demonstrated. If they have received little scientific attention until recently, this is probably because the stereotypes associated with Pygmy groups elsewhere in Central Africa do not seem to apply easily to them. Based on an ethnography focused on the Chaillu mountains area, this thesis contributes to a better knowledge of this population. The fact that the Babongo (sing. mobongo) have the same social and cultural institutions as their Mitsogo and Masangu non-Pygmy neighbors makes it tempting to analyze their interrelationship in ethnic terms. The thesis aims to characterize the Pygmy/non-Pygmy relationship, which is distinct from that between non-Pygmy groups, by its fundamentally bivalent and asymmetric qualities. The argument makes use of two analytical frameworks: “mobongo land” on the one hand, and mainly ritual music on the other. The conceptual entity “mobongo land” emphasizes in geographic terms the central role the Babongo play in the reproduction of the multi-ethnic society that inhabits this area, in spite of their lower social status. The Babongo are considered skilled musicians, and music is treated here as a means of communication linking together a content and a relationship. Various levels of observation are made use of: the musical material and its rules of composition, its performance itself, and the recurrence of performative events. Considering these various levels allows for both the production as well as the perception of music to be taken into account. It also frames the plasticity of musical change in communicational terms. The underlying logic of the relationship between Pygmy and non-Pygmy communities emerges from the meta-communicational dimension of musical practice in ritual contexts. Analysis of this practice highlights the perspectives held by the Babongo and their non-Pygmy neighbors on their interethnic relationship, as well as the analogy that exists between the Babongo/neighbor relationship and that held to exist between women and men. Additionally, I suggest that the characteristic ambivalence of the interethnic relationship in mobongo land derives above all from the Babongo’s compliance with two normative systems. In the end, it appears that that which most distinguishes the Babongo from their neighbors ultimately moves them closer to other Pygmy groups in Central Africa
Agyune, Ndone Fabrice. "Les Makina du Gabon : une anthropologie des rythmes de la transformation ethnique." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009LYO20109.
Full textThe main proposal of this doctoral dissertation is an insightful study of the historical, linguistic and anthropological transformations of the Makina, an ethnic group of Northern and Eastern Gabon. These transformations are referred to the change, during the last century, of the original ethnonym as well as that of the language, of matrimonial rules, and finally of clan and person naming. On the whole, the author’s demonstration leads to the evidence of a rhythmical pattern in change, even a polyrhythmical one, as the differences in speed between different components of an ethnic group may be interpreted as a multi rhythmical transformation system. 81 genealogical diagrams and over 747 individual data collected on fieldwork give strong support to the different aspects of the author’s thesis
Milébou, Ndjavé Kelly Marlène. "Performances de Brice Senah Ambenga, un conteur orungu du Gabon, en situation d’oralité première et de néo-oralité." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCF013.
Full textThis thesis focuses on the orungu orality, in particular the orungu tale. It is centred on the performance of a storyteller, Brice Senah Ambenga, in two different communication situations. Taking performance as a defining criterion for a starting point, the study analyses tales in the traditional orality, in this case, during the wake, the marriage and mourning palaver, the initiation into Bwiti, but also in neo-orality, on the radio and when being staged. The observation of the same enunciator leads to the following innovative question: Does communication situation have any effect on the performance, the language and the texts? The question is analysed in nine chapters.The first chapter presents the storyteller’s society and that includes an overview of his story and the sociopolitical organization of his society.The second chapter is about the theoretical framework in which the analysis is based, supported by the notions of orality, oral literature and performance. Furthermore, a question on the notion of "speech" and "orungu literary genre" is proposed.The third chapter presents the storyteller, his repertoire and communication situations construed in many different circumstances.Chapters four to eight analyse the performances of this storyteller. It is about contextualizing and describing each performance, i.e., the enunciation situation, as well as the tales enunciated therein, so as to isolate their characteristics.Lastly, the last chapter compares performance characteristics of traditional orality and neo-orality.The analysis is based on the corpus of tales transcribed and translated in Volume 2