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PAILLAS, JEAN-PAUL. "D'une experience au cameroun et en france : objets externes et identite d'inities et de patients." Toulouse 3, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991TOU31537.
Full textEile, Lena. "Jando : the rite of circumcision and initiation in East African Islam /." Lund : Plus ultra, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36657330q.
Full textKantiebo, Rosalie. "Musiques, corps et objets dans les rites et dans les danses des Sara du sud Tchad : Le rite initiatique Yondo." Paris, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004MNHN0038.
Full textSouls, bodies and objects in the Yondo initiation rite is a subject that vests the foundation of the person by intervening states of being of the individual being initiated in initiation sites. It is thus that we retain as main boundary bodies: Ndoo (the neophyte at the time of initiation), the king and the newborn. The corporal dimension and the notion of personhood is the heart of the Yondo rite that functions and takes all of its meaning in relation to the globality of the basis of the things of life since its inception. Time and spaces are analyzed and the unfurling of the analysis takes into account the displacement of the neophyte in space and time. The transformations that impose themselves on him all during his initiation path in this time-space declared bitter from the non-temporal and situate themselves within (on the inside of) the initiate. The initiate, being the main space, mediates by himself for his freedom and his ultimate elevation. The path of the Ndoo in space circumscribes a circular scheme (diagram) that inscribes itself by convergent movements then divergent ones, movements that denote on the one hand an action of unification and osmosis then, on the other hand an action of individuation. It is by way of music and dance that all the relations are positioned during the time of initiation. The different relationships are therefore studied through the different rituals that are dedicated to it. The definition of the body as being music and instrument at the same time is proclaimed by the Ndoo (initiates to Yondo) themselves. The music that represents the modulus body reveals it in different apparitions like a mutant, a being capable of taking divers forms. Grace, beauty, suppleness attest to the sublime and the perfection sought by the initiates as much in their loosening their hips and in the presentation of their being: the purple color radiating from their body, fire and light, represent respectively the kaolin and the oil, symbols of their elevation towards non-temporality. Re-appropriation and appropriation to which Yondo is subject or made object in modern structures such as politics and religion. Then we tackle the foundation of Yondo. We make a case for the different uses that are current today, and the variations and stereotypes that the rite has also become a focal point the question of pain and suffering is also raised. Then we question about the notion of the individual and society in light of Yondo. Finally, is Yondo a religion? In spite of the gestures and religious acts that happen during the initiation rites, Yondo closely resembles a rigorously structured philosophy, but is it a religion ?
Gauthier, Michaël. "Chargé du sortilège de la lumière (poèmes) ; : suivi de S'éprouver, se transformer, écrire-- la création comme rite de passage (essai)." Thesis, Université Laval, 2009. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2009/26397/26397.pdf.
Full textVasse, David. "Le sexe comme rite de dépassement filmique et initiatique : le cinéma de Catherine Breillat." Caen, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002CAEN1353.
Full textBehar, David. "Le voyage initiatique : activation et devenir des habitudes d'héritiers migrants issus de la grande bourgeoisie turque." Paris, EHESS, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007EHES0036.
Full textThe premise of this work is to explore how a cosmopolitan bourgeoisie converts its social resources in the context of a globalized education and a globalized economy, undertaking a novel case study: Turkey. It analyses the transmission process and the specific rites of initiation in a group of families ail possessing an extensive social capital accumulated over time and sharing a common agenda to mobilize the resources offered by the international field. The initiatory journey of the heirs of the Turkish bourgeoisie is a journey in the literal sense, as it involves a complex migratory cycle with several departures and returns. However, since the first departure and the final return are planned at the same time, their migration presents one less unknown factor when compared to other migration patterns. This research shows that the international dimension of the rites of initiation is the central element of a model of transmission determining access to prestigious educational institutions and to the most selective working positions, both on the international market and in the country of origin. This approach is original in that it focuses on the contradictory situations through a detailed study of socializ¬ing contexts and relationship choices. The costs of the initiatory journey appear then to be very high. The unexpected readjustment crisis experienced in the first years after final return to Turkey is in direct contradiction to the established idea that the heirs have completed their socialization when the successive challenges of their formation have been conquered. The success of transmission process depends on the ability to compromise, as there is a continuing renegotiation of the heirs' position and roles they perceive as assigned to them
Bertin, Raynald. "Professionnalité du CPE. L'exercice de l'autorité et les rites de passage dans leur rapport à la transgression. Le cas de la fête du Père Cent." Thesis, Pau, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PAUU1001/document.
Full textOne hundred days prior to the baccalaureate exam, the 12th graders (US) / upper sixth pupils (GB) celebrate the Père cent. They wear disguises like people do in carnival parades and go begging for small change at roundabouts (crossroads). Eventually, they organize parties and dance (all night long). It is a kind of rite of passage to celebrate the good time spent together before everyone makes the parting of the ways. Most school officials look unfavourably on this custom / tradition as they consider it as hazing (US) / fresher initiation (GB). The CPE is in charge of the educational animation at school. He is supposed to guide the pupils' initiatives, without actually backing a celebration such as the Père Cent. How can a prohibited event take place each year ? What is the aim of breaking the rules for the youth ? How can the CPE react when confronted with this subversive ritual ? The historiography of this feast (1880-2010) and the analysis of pictures spanning one century made it possible to reveal the basic elements and the military origins of the celebration. (Ecole normale d’instituteurs) The unchanging factors of the celebration have emerged thanks to an hermeneutic analysis, the archetypal structure of the Père cent was thus outlined. Carrying the concepts of festival, rites of passage and rebellion against authority, the methodology used showed how the celebration is the perfect way for pupils to experience rites of passage and rebellion. Students get the opportunity to show evidence of their maturity. As a consequence, the duty of the CPE is at the heart of the tension and contradictions triggered up by the Père cent celebration. The theoritical support of this research largely stem from the work of A.Gennep and V.W. Turner about the rites of passage, R. Callois, J.Heers, M.Maffesoli about celebrations, P.Meirieu, J.Housaye, F.Lerbet-Séréni about education, P.Audi, B.Robbes, A. Kojève about authority and X. Pommereau, J-J. Rassial about adolescence. Beyond the celebration, this study shows how interesting and profitable it is for the CPE to commit himself in any educative field and rouse the pupils' auctor
Adjoi, Obengui Guy Donald. "Religion locale et pouvoir politique au Gabon : cas du rite Ndjobi chez les Mbede." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LORR0157/document.
Full textOn horseback between political Sociology and political Anthropology, this thesis try to understand the interaction enter "local Religion and political Power» with the prospect of consolidation of the power Africa, more exactly in the Gabon. It underlines the management (direction) of the power politics and analyzes the relationship enter the initiation rite Ndjobi and the political power in the community Mbede. This thematic field is deconstructed up to the Gabonese nation through the initiation and the implication of the politics premises within this religion. The rite Ndjobi would be a local counter-offensive to repair the universe social and to protect Mbede. It is a fundamental element in the maintenance of law and order through the symbolism of Okèlè é Ndjobi that is the assertion by which an initiated calls in to witness the sacred and the truth of the statement which he utters in front of the basket containing the relics of Ndjobi. For a traditional leader, this rite would be a way to compensate for a constitutional deficiency of its political power to maintain at its introduced subjects respect and especially been afraid, fault of whom its power could widely be imaginary. The oath of Ndjobi would be a political reliable contract to a village headman, to a politician introduced to this rite. Through this demolition, this local religion appears as a support of the Gabonese political power on a national scale and even money regional. Even if the oaths are made with words; but in Black Africa, these words are not light. They allow to act on one, on the others and on the world concerned as a constraint comparable to a sword of Damocles. The constraint practiced in a way subtle and imposed with some intra-political negotiations bound to the «politics of the stomach " So that the initiation undergone is not similar to an act of the witchcraft in the eyes of the population. The witchcraft as a penalty of the rite Ndjobi is lived by all the Mbede and the political initiated, as a threat perms of aggression aiming their bodies, at their goods and at their families. Indeed, every traditional leader says "Nga Mpuhu" always chooses the guile, the fraud, the ritual crimes, the material ownership as political way to make not only control the population, but also to manipulate the desires for power of her followers and for her close collaborators. In Africa, "you saddle today and ride out tomorrow" and plan, it is to set up a mechanism allowing to avoid being was a surprise by the enemy who, generally, is always a close relation. It would be, in fact, the putting according to a "traditional Democracy ". It is in this direction that this thesis can serve of complementary element with the prospect of understanding and analysis of politics in Black Africa through the religions local as foundation of the political power in spite of the current arrival of the modern religious obedience and the sponsoring
Paillas, Jean-Paul. "Initiation et réalisation identitaire. A propos des Doupas (Nord du Cameroun)." Toulouse 2, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997TOU20108.
Full textThe dupas from the north cameroon bring us into identity realization through their initiation with circumcision. Their cultural difference is a pretext for the definition of an intercultural frame with plural references. The initiation is defined according to previous studies and observation of the dupas. Here, as a living and social being, the subject acts before, during and hereafter the different steps of life : when coming into the world, living, eating, excreting, dying, dancing and speaking with a language involving the other one, the dupa is really marked by castration. The identity with the body and the partakings of the objects in the rite is made in a complex field, the psychological approach of which, first, - with its psychoanalytical foundations - and the anthropological approach, second, are distinct but however structurally intricate. These structural articulations are confirmed by a lexical and contextual analysis compared with factual data taking each subject one after another : external objects and own body are the bases of the initiatory, identity process in intermediary spaces with temporal, spatial and significant - meaningful - connections. A structural approach congruent with this identity complex is combined with the recognition of cultural particularities to be found in the vacobulary and ethnography, volume ii. This research in fundamental psychopathology implies the combination of disciplines and the priority given to the works done by the local people. Thus, it opens the prospect of a so-called public or commun health, the centre of which is the subject
Bogdan, Henrik. "From darkness to light : Western esoteric rituals of initiation /." Göteborg : Göteborg university, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39130668p.
Full textBonhomme, Julien. "Le miroir et le crâne : parcours initiatique du Bwete Misoko, Gabon /." Paris : CNRS éd. : Éd. de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40116623m.
Full textSanogo, Moustapha. "Le système des classes d'âge et l'organisation des rituels dans la société initiatique du Koma : (pays Worodougou, région du Séguéla, Côte d'Ivoire)." Paris, EPHE, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998EPHEA001.
Full textGodeau, Emmanuelle. ""La coutume des carabins" : ethnologie de l'internat." Paris, EHESS, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004EHES0046.
Full textThe training of specialised French physicians is studied through liminary behaviours belonging to cultural customs, with their own symbolic efficacy. During internship, some stages appear. First, dissections, which will forever differentiate doctors from all others. Next, after discussion of specifics about French internship, the "manners" students have to learn during their internship: a baptism celebrates their entrance into their new community; specific rules or manners characteristic to their staff waiting rooms; finaly, funerals which end their lives as interns. In addition, revues, satirical shows created by the youngest for the eldest, show the continuity and coherence of the career and the logic of the cultural customs studied here. Finaly, these apprenticeship years appear as a true initiation that changes those who go through it as such forever. The originality of this training lies first in the fact that official and traditional knowledges are built and learned together, in the middle of the hospital; and second in the subject of medical training itself, which leads to repeated transgression of the taboos of death, nudity and sexuality
Kammerer, Pierre. "Le don et l'initiation comme supports de la régulation narcissique et comme fondements de médiations éducatives." Paris 13, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA131019.
Full textA short historical account of the notions of delinquency and psychopathy has led us to define some delinquent actions as related to narcissism troubles. We have, then, described the narcissic regulation in its different meanings. A specific therapy, in psychoanalytic therapy and in treatment establishments has been thought out. It partly relies on gift and promoting separation. The concepts of gift and initiation, reinterpreted by psychoanalysis and ethnology seem to play an important part in the narcissic. Regulation of the human being in societies. Research has been done on a group of young delinquents, prone to narcissic troubles, and used as a testing ground. Based on the concepts of gift and initiation, an educational scheme has been concrived to overcome their difficulties: a journey of an initiatoric nature, from grenoble to burkina-faso, the objectif of which was an humanitarian donation. A long clinical assessment is made to define more accurately the personnal mutations made possible for these young people by going through such an experience. The initial double assumption has seemed toprove correct in the aggregate
Kambou, 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 textAbambole, Jean Gérard. "De l'initiation éducative." Bordeaux 2, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987BOR21001.
Full textMalé, Salia. "Le culte Jo en pays Baninko (Mali) : objets et rites initiatiques." Paris 10, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA100075.
Full textThis work of doctorate, called "Jo’s cult in baninko area (Mali) - objects and ritual initiation «include prolegomena, five chapters, the conclusion and appended. The prolegomena deals about: 1) motivations, personal information’s, professional motivations, documents, the genesis of the subject which relate the history of a statuette representing the soul of the jo's cult followers, 2) the experience of the researcher who makes inquiry in its own society, 3) the problematic of this subject which is in line with the fundamental concepts of traditional thought and with bamanan initiation societies. The first chapter is about the history of the bamananw who practice the Jo and about myths and tales of the Jo origin. The second one describes and analyses the hierarchical organization initiatory class, the religious representations of the Jo and theirs relationships. The third chapter describe the others sacral objects and places of the Jo, the musical formations which characterize the septennial manifestations of the Jo, the clothes of the cult's children. In the fourth chapter, is described the cycle of the bamanan seasons in relation with the stage of agricultural activities, which emphasize the time compute fitting with the annuals ritual of the jo, which are: the nkoson "the gift to the word", the cinamankun in the fields during the raining season, the noonfrison, the “gift to Noonfri”, the entity which protect and destroy life, the jarason, the “gift to what makes life delightful”. The fifth chapter is dealing with the compute elements of the Jo septennial calendar, the way the tradition of the Jo is transmitted to the new generation. This transmission is about the teaching of the Jo, initiation ordeals, neophyte live, the meaning of the cult diffusion, the consecration of the young initiated as man of the cult. In the conclusion, we tell about the general lines of the Jo cult
Chardenet, Virginie. "Destins de garçons en marge du symbolique : analyse d'un ensemble de récits de tradition orale et de pratiques carnavalesques." Paris, EHESS, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006EHES0254.
Full textThe stupid man, who is an emblematic figure of facetious folk tales, demonstrate the inhuman fate of those who cannot free themselves from incestuous ties. Monster characters, who are the manifestation of an archaic psyche, and poweful boys, who are doomed to be confined to melancholic regression, share characteristics similar to this example of infant narcissism. As a counterpart to these figures are the boys of Pezenas who, during Carnival, go through ritualistic games with their body, with words and with death that are regressive and transgressive, and from which they celebrate the self-generation of their identity
Brulé, Pierre. "La Fille d'Athènes : la religion des filles à Athènes à l'époque classique : mythes, cultes et société /." Paris : les Belles lettres, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb370167912.
Full textEngelhart, Monica. "Extending the tracks : A cross-reductionistic approach to Australian Aboriginal male initiation rites." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell international, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37702264t.
Full textAnyanwu, Cyprian Chima Uzoma. "The rites of initiation in christian liturgy and in Igbo traditional society : towards the inculturation of christian liturgy in Igbo land /." Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb399151523.
Full textCorbière, Martine. "Le bizutage dans les écoles d'ingénieur-e-s : l'asymétrie des sexes comme ressort d'action d'une idéologie défensive." Toulouse 2, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000TOU20104.
Full textRagging (termed « hazing » in the US) has generally been described as a rite of passage. If one accepts the premise that, due to numerous transitions that intervene throughout the life cycle, the passage to adulthood has become a difficult process to observen then this assumption needs to be rigorously and systematically questioned. This study tests the following hypothesis. Does ragging, a pale imitation of a rite of passage, mainly work to reinforce the collective ? Repetition of ritual involves otherness and build samenexx. Since engineering schools are a part of a competitive environment, the construction of the collective through ragging is governed by what I call « a defensive ideology ». Distinguishing oneself from others in this milieu and publicly demonstrating cohesiveness and an abilitiy to mobilize, helps build the armor needed to fight the covert battle between the different educational institutions. The form taken by ragging is also examined. How precisely do these acts, that clearly involve relations of submission, take shape ? If we take a closer look, the body appears as one of the vectors of this domination. The body is constrained, sometimes trained to be obedient or abused. Ragging thus places this question of the body at the heart of symbolic exchanges. The entry of women has raised the issue of gender interactions with in engineering schools. This research has been based upon the hypothesis that the structuring of virility is an important component of ragging. Even as institutions go coeducational, a part of the now-mandatory egalitarian stance in virtually all the schools in question, the driving force behind ragging is gender asymmetry. The objective was to examine inter-gender (men/women) and intra-gender (men/men and women/women) relations to understand how young menand women negotiate their positions. This study explores the gendered divisions of power and influence encountered in these institutions
Nguema, Ondo Jean Léonard. "L'influence de l'initiation traditionnelle dans le roman gabonais." Paris 4, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA040060.
Full textInfluenced by traditional initiation, gabonese novels embodies the basic ingredients of the rites and beliefs of the gabonese people. Gabonese novels evoke common themes which reflect different fundamental aspects of gabonese culture and tradition. In some novels, the subject of social integration is illustrated as certain characters undergo rites of circumcision or "tchikumbi" which marks the passage from childhood to adulthood. On novels, the subject of spiritual purification in other, principal characters undergo an initiation into the spiritual or invisible world and a mastery of the art of magic. And lastly, some novels situate on the theme of sorcery whereby sorcerers indulge in self metamorphosis and anthropophagi. These eight literary works which embody our literature highlight important symbolic characters, transcendental environment and an initiation parlance which unveils the one hand the link between the gabonese people and the sacred clan and on the other, the dynamic relationship between the traditional belief system and Christianity presumably the largest religion in Gabon, a relationship initially confrontational and later constructive based on inculturation, tolerance, dialogue and acceptance and recognition of mutual differences
Ghouti, Sonia. "L'univers symbolique et initiatique des Gnaoua d'Essaouira." Paris 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA010705.
Full textHéron, Céline. "Le chasseur noir à l'école de l'alternance : la polémique dans les chemins et les trajets de formation/initiation." Pau, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PAUU1002.
Full textThe general problematic of the thesis consist to explore the relation between polemical and learning. This is alternate school that uses of revealing context of the polemical in this work. The author work this subject with teachers newly recruited. An educational formation, that specifies the trade of teaching in alternate system, is prepared by all the new ones recruited. The latter are then the black hunters that must pass the threshold of the school of alternate. Because this educational qualification questions the competence of discipline, she seems to be catalyst of polemical with these new ones teachers and in particular with those that are coming from the academic school discipline. The polemical conceives itself under the forms of "Duellum"and under the form of "Polemos". She is made obvious from the contradictions met in the formation way and in the initiation trip. Is the formation way, thought by the welcome institution and that favors the debate between disciplines and experience, revitalizes learning ? How dread the resonance between the ways, heteroreferencing and the initiation trips, autoréférencing ? The envisaged methodology is dependent, for the formation ways, quantitative approach and, for the initiation trips, of a process of discussions. Besides, the myths are envisioned as methodological process. The theoretical support of this research constitutes itself, from the standpoint author, from the works of "the anthropology of the hétéroréférence" (R. Lourau, MR. Mauss…) and from those of "the anthropology of the autoréférence" (Sophocle, Euripide…)
Mathé, Thierry. "Le bouddhisme des français : contribution à une sociologie de la conversion : le cas du bouddhisme tibétain et de la Soka Gakkai͏̈ en France." Paris 5, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA05H054.
Full textThe topic of this research is to analyse the adhesion's manners to the buddhism at the formal level (community, institution), ritual and thoughts (religious imaginary), and ideologic (justification, public speech). This research is based upon life histories of the French practisants Tibetan buddhism and Soka Gakkai͏̈ (comprehensive approach). Beeing membership of a buddhism seems to imply a change in the interpretation of the reality : the feeling of laking the control of life, attested by life histories, throughout a verbal construction of difficult trajectory of life, and prenticeship of a specific vocabulary in the practisant group. We can note a new vision of life, a "pleasement of the world", by the soul wealth, by a self perfecting discipline, and a daily ritualism ; (. . . )
Collos, Jean-Pierre. "Mami Wata, le miroir baroque : étude d'une réinterprétation des représentations religieuses dans le Sud-Bénin, 1999-2008." Paris, EPHE, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010EPHE5018.
Full textMami Wata, a divinity widely known on the African continent, has been the subject of several articles, books and films that present her in a variety of figures. Art historians, in particular, have sought for her origins in depictions of sirens and mermaids. Many authors have drawn on each other’s writings, thus creating a body of Mami Wata literature. Others, mostly anthropologists, have tried to understand the Mami Wata phenomenon by asking, “Why do individuals resort to this belief?” Instead of building an archetype, they have tried to show how the divinity is instantiated in different contexts. Adopting this perspective, this dissertation, written after a decade of fieldwork in southern Benin, analyzes the idiosyncratic procedure whereby the Master of Mami Wata constructs the divinity’s ritual. His manipulations of rites are intended to allow the divinity to be instantiated locally as an inference added onto a pre-existing conceptual framework. A comparison of this procedure with other approaches to ritual practices related to Mami Wata in several localities in this region, in particular, with the practices related to initiation and with the idea of a matrimonial alliance with a Voodoo divinity, shows how the action of a “biographical individual” can infuse a movement that eventually leads to changes in religious forms. Mami Wata, an “instance of representation”, turns out to be a specular being, the reflection of a lost identity, a baroque mirror for “reinventing concord between the individual and the world”
HOENSCH, MARLENE. "L'initiation dans quelques romans francais et africains." Paris 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA030151.
Full textMartinez, Nadine. ""Quand le serpent parle le bummõ le répête. . . " : étude des surfaces planes dans les oeuvres d'art des Dogon, Bambara et Sénoufo de la Côte d'Ivoire et du Burkina Faso." Paris 1, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA010517.
Full textFrom an aesthetic, ethnologic and comparative point of view, level surfaces of dogon, Bamana and Senufo works of art, which have different geometric outlines (rectangular, square, circular, curved or cylindrical), display various symbols, painted as well as engraved and openwork symbols. These surfaces play a part in the rituals. They contain the most intimate thoughts of initiation and those of the families facing the death, and they are a way to approach god. The plane is the product of a conflicting aesthetic, ambivalence and it embodies the hope of religion, of immortality. The openwork proceed from a deeper and deeper levelling of the surface to the piercing of the material. The plan reveals the division of the world into three parts and the mind's tripartite functioning of the studied families : it is the golden mean, the balancing point. Displaying signs, it is the basis of the oral and written initiatory education. The signs create writings that are sometimes different from the alphabetic writings of from the ones aiming at the strict reproduction of the speech, but their functioning is original. They act as a medium in the dialogue between mankind and god, for their fight against the dangers of the breath the speech contains, and the divine answer follows the canal of the ritual possession. When these writings are integrated in the linguistic or semiotic speech, the pierce's model is the best adapted model to study them. Moreover, their aesthetic places them midway between art and writing. The symbols and the diffusion of the plane offer the opportunity to locate some families' movings in history, which historians', archaeologists' texts and the oral tradition confirm. Western-African families would most probably come from east, from Cameroun, or from a longer way, from Egypt or central Africa. The dogon and the tellem would surely constitute a same family such as the dogon and the Mossi
Darnis, Pierre Moner Michel. "Lecture et initiation dans le récit bref cervantin." [S.l.] : [TEL], 2006. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00116592/fr.
Full textDevo, 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
Gabail, Laurent. "Morphologie sociale, initiation et danse dans un groupe de villages bassari (République de Guinée)." Paris 10, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA100189.
Full textThis thesis is the monography of a West African society (Bassari) where the notions of age and sex determine all institutions and social interactions. The male initiation ritual that the Bassari carry out not only transforms boys into men, it also introduces them in a system of age classes that segments, through six-year grades, the male and female population, from teenage years to old age. This specific treatment of life’s ages is not without consequences. It informs the way whereby is thought, through time, the affiliation to different kinship groups (uterine, agnatic), the ties to distinctive residential units(paternal house, teenage common houses, matrimonial house) and the emergence of singular individuals. The study of the concrete functioning of the age system sheds light on new relations, partly detached from kinship, and which find in the danced performances a site of privileged expression. At (the crossroad of male and female ritual logics, dance is an expressive repertoire through which relations are given to see for what it is: the public setting of what is played out elsewhere in the ritual
Bisson, David. "Une politique de la Tradition au XXè siècle : fondements et usages de la pensée de René Guénon (1910-1980)." Rennes 1, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009REN1G021.
Full textThis thesis aims at be in line with the intellectual history to undestand the theorical foundations, explain the pratical modalities and identify the spheres of influences. Employing an interdisciplinary approach that combines history, sociology and philosophy, we will uhance the meta-political problemes which define the traditional system. The fight against the modern world order to follow a spiritual way (initiation) and in the same way, a quest for wisdom (gnosis) demand that you abandon the western society. According to this approach, the concept of Tradition is the axiomatic key to open the being to itself while closing it to the world. We find this problem, in a variable way, in each of the phases of our investigations into history. In a first part ( 1910-1932), the traditional idea appears in the background of occultism and develops through the contact of the indian doctrines to confront the modern word. R. Guénon defines the terms of a metaphysical policy (meta-politics) which depends as much on the intellectual environment as on its gnostic roots. In a second part (1932-1951), the traditional system withdraws into itself, and encourages its disciples to follow the initiatory way supervised by a distant master, who lives then in the suburbs of Cairo. It does not prevent some people from politically re-interpreting this ideology which transposes the concept of Tradition into the ideological crucible of nationalism. In the third part (1951-1980), the death of R. Guénon disturbs the harmony in descendants. In addition to the disciples who comes together into confidential groups (sufi tarîqa, masonic lodges, etc. . . ), it is necessary to consider the "dissident" interpreters of the Tradition as the readers 'in shadow" of the work who, according to different logics, tend to insert the name R. Guénon in the marble of the anti-modern fight. So, the road opened by the "Master of Tradition" continues to follow its groove even if the tensions between the esoteric speculation and the political involvement are very profound
Sewane, Dominique. "La lance et le serpent : rituels initiatiques du Dikuntri et du Difuani chez les Tammariba." Paris, EPHE, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999EPHEA001.
Full textKolie, Joachim. "L'initiation kpellè et le christianisme depuis l'époque coloniale (1912) jusqu'à la période de l'indépendance (1958) et ses conséquences : étude historique et théologique de la pastorale sociale de l'Eglise en Guinée forestière." Paris 4, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040060.
Full textI endeavoured to analyse,from an historical and cultural point of view,the rituals of 'Polon' (men's initiation) and 'Hanin' (women's initiation),which take place among the Kpellè's who live in Forest Guinea. .
Battain, Tiziana. "Le zar, rituel de possession en egypte : de la souffrance a l'accomplissement." Paris, EHESS, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997EHES0017.
Full textThe thesis is based on a systematic observation of rites and investigation among zar members in cairo region and constitutes a valid contribution to the knowledge of possession rites in the arab-muslim countries. The egyptian zar regards essentially women of every class and age. It is a very flexible rite adapting to the egyptian context and following the evolution of the country during the 20th century. The author studied the rite not in its social or psychological fonctions but in its structure following its own mechanisms of relation among all the agents: the spirits, the novice, the officiant, the members. The rite logic implies the transformation of the relation between the human being and the surnatural world, the spirits and the divinity. The transformation happens from the repetition of the initiatic rites for several years and ends to the spiritual accomplishment of the member. From spirit possessed she becomes initiate and finally officiant (kudiya) passing by different ritual steps and taking various titles testifying her progression. From a "wild" possession she passes to a "managed" possession. The ritual structure implies in different moments the art of divination, music and dance following the trance, the use of various ritual objects, the sacrifice of eatable animals. The egyptian zar is not only a therapy but it is considered as a religious rite and its members are pious muslims. Nevertheless, the spiritual nature of zar crosses all the religions (muslim, christian, jewish), recognizes and integrates them in its ritual. It is considered as a rite where the "grace" of allah is manifested. The kudiya becomes the channel of his blessing and helps the other possessed in their transforming process. Thanks to her special relation to the spirits and the control over her possession that implies her authority, knowledge and necessary power she acts positively in the rites. Therefore, the zar appears as a specific feminine religious from often contrasted by orthodoxy or mysticism and government
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
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.
Full textThis 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
Pernet, Fabien. "La construction de la personne au Nunavik : ontologie, continuité culturelle, et rites de passage." Thesis, Université Laval, 2014. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2014/30323/30323.pdf.
Full textRavaosolo, Jeanne. "Apprentissage et transmission culturels : cas des rituels au Hazomanga (Toliara, Madagascar)." Paris, EHESS, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995EHES0338.
Full textLearning about everyday life is often considered as informal, i. E acquisited throught imitation, observation, impregnation. From this affirmation, we were interseted in studing processus which underlie transmission and acquisition of knowledges and abilities relative in South-West of Madagascar. Beside personal motivations, rituals concerning communication between the living and the ancestors, rituals at the "Hazomanga" have been chosen as it is postulated that these sorts of symbolic practices are like a shortening of the social organization ot the cultural group. Indeed, every relational ways between the group individuals ara coded in the rituals. Our general hypothesis is that an analysis of the construction of knowledges about rituals would reflect the acquisition processes about the social system. To enter this question, the global frama for our analysis is the notion of "learning niche" (1993), derived from super & harkness notion of "developmental niche" (1986), intersting in the way it opens a multiple approach. So we have simultaneously worked on : - adult assertions about their conceptions of learning. - Adult ways assumed to organize and control the learnes participation to the rituals at the Hazomanga
Lepage-Fournier, Simon. "Étude phénoménologique du discernement des parents québécois qui demandent l'initiation chrétienne pour leurs enfants." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/35844.
Full textI began this doctoral project with the desire to question and to renew the practice by which I welcomed the young families which asked for the first communion and for the confirmation. To reach this goal, I centered my searches on the practice of the discernment of the parents. I chose to lead this research by handing over to the parents who ask for the initiation, because they are the main actors of the phenomenon, from there the choice of the phenomenological analysis as qualitative method of analysis. This analysis was able to lead us to a description of the phenomenon and to its main constituents. Testimonies of the participants, I chose to highlight the experience of review of an element of salute in a context of difficult transmission. It is this experience which was correlated to that of the Jewish people (Exodus 14-15), that of the Crow (Acts 10) and that of the Samaritan (Jean 4, 1-42). To make these texts speak, I chose the narratology, because this approach of the narrative seemed to me good to answer the phenomenology, used as qualitative method of analysis, which pays attention on the narratives of the participants. This experience(experiment) also benefited from the lighting of the testimony written by Marie de l' Incarnation (Lettres XL and XLI). To establish the context in which takes place the testimony of the parents, I shall emphasize the papers of É-Martin Meunier, sociologist of the religions. This progress led me to propose four beacons to renew the ways pastoral ministers welcome the parents asking Christian initiation for their children. Welcome, by avoiding any prejudice and by respecting the discernment of the parents which led them to make the request of the Christian initiation. Favor a personal meeting by revising the time and the places of our practices and by equipping the pastoral ministers by the pastoral dialogue, the spiritual accompaniment or the active listening. Reveal rather than teach, by authorizing to testify by recognizing God's share in its life, so allowing to read its action in the narrative of life of the parents asking for the Christian initiation that I shall have taken care of listening to. Work on a friendly community, for it develop proposals at all the ages of the life and integrate Christian initiation at the heart of the community real-life experience.
Mweze, Baguma. "Le mariage chez les Bashi et ses transformations récentes : étude d'anthropologie sociale et culturelle." Paris 5, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA05H121.
Full textThe bashi marriage is the culmination of the progressive human and social education of young people, preparing them for their future task. The full rites can be performed only once in the lifetime of each individual, for the first marriage. It is a global initiation to married life, held in an atmosphere of happiness and rejoicing, with meetings, dances, exchanges of gifts and meals, and elaborate rites under the control of experienced men and women. The ritual consecrates the plenitude of definitive and indissoluble matrimonial union, in the face of the problems of polygamy, divorce and death. Animals, plants, human beings, spirits, various realities of the cosmic and cultural worlds, all have their role in this ritual. Stressing the importance of harmony in the community, the tradition makes sure of the agreement of the couple as well as of the mutual understanding of the families forming the alliance. The ceremony emphasizes the support of the ancestors, the continuity of the vital link transmitted to the couple through the parents who, having accomplished their task, accede to the status of elders who have married a child. The whole community is invited to recognize the social changes brought about by this important event. The originality of these traditions has often struck foreigners, especially the missionaries, who were not always able to interpret the richness of shi rites and symbols, whose internal logic escaped them. Through the Christian wedding, religion and education, they introduced the system of western thought and culture which they prejudged to be superior to the shi system. However, this system organizes the sharing of responsibilities and tasks in a spirit of respect for the difference and complementarity of the men and women, thus insuring their mutual physical, psychical and social growth and self-realization
Thomas, Jean-Pierre. "Le parcours initiatique dans les récits de voyage canadiens-français au XIXe siècle (1850-1900)." Sherbrooke : Université de Sherbrooke, 1998.
Find full textLe, Guillou Philippe. "Figures et rituels initiatiques dans le roman et le récit français : (1970-1980)." Rennes 2, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997REN20005.
Full textThis thesis intends to study the return of rituals and patterns of initiation in a series of works published between 1970 and 1980, essentially in texts written by Tournier, Gracq, Grainville, Farragi and Louis-Combet. These authors and the traditional rules of initiation are presented first, then one deals with narrative forms and characterization in the different texts -particular attention is given to the waning of the figure of the master. The initiatory space is also duly considered and one aims at defining the aesthetics of the texts as a poetry of secrecy. The thesis wishes to replace this literary trend in the decade 1970-80, showing how much these works reflect the mutations and fears of their time. Drawing inspiration from the works of Bachelard, Eliade and Durand on initiation and imagination, the author is ever at pain to link this initiatory constellation to a tradition of mythical literature, beyond the temporal bounds of his study
Lozes, Guillaume. "Initiation, ésotérisme et vodou en action au coeur de l'oeuvre d'Olympe Bhêly-Quenum : une lecture de l'oeuvre littéraire d'Olympe Bhêly-Quenum." Paris 13, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA131019.
Full textThe Beninese literature of French language has know an era of prosperity in the colonial time with writers formed by the Catholic Missions. The first novel of the Beninese literature of French language is Félix Couchoro's work. He then entailed in his trail others writers all having belonged to an intellectual elite formed with the aid of France, who so worked without restraint in the colonial brilliance. Nevertheless, the literary productions of these writers allowed to give their letters of nobility to the Beninese literature. They so opened the way to the writers of the following generation in the first row of whom is Olympe Bhêly-Quenum. Joining a literary perpetuity, Olympe Bhêly-Quenum, in spite of the classicism of his writing, draws directly to the sources of his soil the subjects which the reader finds in his literature. It then happened the bard of the Beninese spiritual values that he digs up indefatigably also by being, if necessary, an acerbic denigrator of the traditions which overcome. Refusing to join a tradition of African literature stating the initiatory route of the characters of the African novel, Olympe Bhêly-Quenum prefers to reveal to the eyes of the reader an initiated seizes on the deep. So that the stages crossed during the training of the initiated, his doubts, are darkened and often remain a mystery for the reader. Nevertheless, Olympe Bhêly-Quenum remains a charming writer whose questionings stick on time. It is then advisable to bend with him over all these problems which touch the universality, the conflict between tradition and modernity, all in all the balance of the man
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
Ratté, Simon-Pierre. "Du neuf sur la cryptie?" Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ55604.pdf.
Full textBellarabi, Youssef. "La toxicomanie et la délinquance : le cas du Maroc." Paris 5, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA05H017.
Full textIn most of the developing countries, the increase of delinquency has become a problem during the last twenty years. In the developing countries, since the eighties, delinquency has considerably grown and keeps increasing today while juvenile delinquency grows in an exponential way. The increase of delinquency is developed within a context characterized partly by the growth of the traffic of drugs and the abuse of drug consumption, and otherwise by the globalisation of organised criminality. This contributes to amplify the effects of socio-economic crises and to incorporate young delinquents as good bargain labour. It seems, then, that delinquency is motivated by drug-addiction. Wether this proposal brings up a good sense which establishes it in common area, it doen't less need a real sociological investigation. All the researches, on international scale, have shown that there is no causality link between drug-addiction and delinquency, and that there is no unique cause for delinquency but there is an intricacy of causes. Amongst these, we must underline the youth frustrations, family and school deficiencies, the influence of gangs, the ill-mastered urbanisation etc. . . The modification of social controls, particularly the breach of the social tie at the level of quarters in big cities seems as well to be a cause for deliquency. The drawbacks of this growth of delinquency is the development of a generalized insecurity feeling and the strengthening of security, through repression
Lazzarini, Nicole. "L'espace de l'initiation dans "Le Médianoche amoureux" de Michel Tournier." Metz, 1990. http://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/public/UPV-M/Theses/1990/Lazzarini.Nicole.LMZ907.pdf.
Full text"Le Médianoche amoureux" is a collection of short stories and tales narrated during a night meal by Yves and Nadege, a married couple willing ton announce to their guests that they intended to separate. At the end of the night, after listening to their own tales, the two lovers have experienced a true initiation and cancel their plan. Those who are familiar with Michel Tournier's imaginary world have here another example of this theme in his work, though this initiation is here considered in its etymological and most profound sense. Space in Michel Tournier's work assumes a highly symbolical dimension and the text itself appears as a space designed for initiation. This dual concept of space can be examined in the light of recent research by psychologists and sociologists. The second part of the short stories and tales reports about initiations at the age of puberty and initiations to the world of knowledge and the sacred, set in a topologically and symbolical space. Yves' and Nadege's experience in "Les amants taciturnes" refers to these two types of initiation and is enriched in a space which has both topological and literary dimension. The midnight meal at sea is an opportunity for all guests to partake in the eating and the listening. Their guests offer various objects to the couple for them to reconstruct a space for communication that takes roots in the congenial space of the meal, the literary space of tales, and the topological space of the sea
Mpfouma, Bopoungo. "Le mythe de l'initiation dans le roman négro-africain : Contribution à l'étude de l'imaginaire." Grenoble 3, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986GRE39015.
Full textWe treat initiation myth in seven negro-african novels which follow : l'aventure ambigue (c. H. Kane), chaka (t. Mofolo), l'enfant noir (c. Laye), l'etrange destin de wangrin (a. H. Ba), l'initie (o. Bhely-quenum), le monde s'effondre (c. Acebe), and l'ivrogne dans la brousse (a. Tutuola). Our work is a research based on negro-african imaginary. It is divided into three principal areas : 1 traditional commentry critics for the fact that they neglated myth structures which constitut the only true understanding of the texts listed above. 2 establishment of an original lexic of negro-african initiations. 3 analysis of mythical structures which lead to a "mythanalyse", and the definition in a sens which is both psychological and sociological