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Anthropology
Research topics
Social and religious anthropology : 
the notion of ancestor Forms of ritual possession The phenomena of beliefs and cultural interbreeding
Fields
Chad / Cameroon (populations : Masa and Koma) Meeting, Madagascar
Publications
Thesis 1978 Researches on the social organisation of Masa, region of Koumi, Chad, Thesis of 3rd cycle, Paris - Sorbonne university
Works 1983 Masa of Chad, stock and society, Cambridge university press, Ed. MSH, Paris and Cambridge. 2008, The marriage of cultures in the island of Meeting, Karthala, 307 p.
Having mainly centered on the population of plantations – descendants of slaves and of enlisted men, fruit of a brewing of people native to Madagascar, of Mozambique, of Comoros, Zanzibar but also of Hindu In diens come from different bars of India, this work treats the correlation of the various cultural inheritances which contributed to the edification of the religious thought of Réunionnais, under the supervision of the Catholicism imposed by colonialism.
Research articles in magazines with selection panel and contribution in research works
On 1979 “The sacrifice as ritual trial to Masa of Chad”, Systems of thought in Black Africa, 4, pp.95-115.
On 1980 “The social role and ritual of the stock to Masa of Chad”, Africa, 50, 2, pp. 161-181.
On 1981 “Sacrifice and homicide in country masa, Chad”, Systems of thought in Black Africa, 5, pp.175-193.
On 1985 “right to curse, curse and oath to Masa of Chad”, Right and Cultures, 9-10, pp.81-94.
On 1986 “justice vindicatoire to Masa of Chad”, Right and Cultures, 11, pp.141-144.
1987a “The sacrifice or the question of murder”, Anthropos, 82 (1/3), pp.135-149.
1987b “Power and bitterness : two studies of case, Koma of Cameroon and Masa of Chad”, Systems of thought in Black Africa, 8, pp. 141-176.
1989a “right to curse”, Oath. Collection of anthropological, historical and legal studies, Publidix, Paris.
1989b “dead circumcising. The worship of skulls in the populations of Haute Bénoué (Cameroon / Nigeria)”, Systems of thought in Black Africa, 9, pp.33-73.
On 1993 '"The gauze hair’ or the marking of ethnic identity in creole middle réunionnais", New Magazine of Ethnopsychiatrie, n°20, pp. 105-118.
On 1995 “Regicide and introduction”. Limitation of reigns and initiatory cycle in mounts Mandara, in Newspaper of the Africanists, 65, (1) pp.5-34.
On 1997 "The blood grants" there. Religious relation between living beings and ancestors to Réunionnais of malagasy origin ; religion and Practices of Power, in Albert de Surgy (dir)., Paris : Harmattan, pp. 315-353.
1998a “Make on both sides, the one Daddy, the other Mom”. Look on one religious routes in the island of Meeting, Newspaper of the Africanists, 68/1&2.öParcours of conversion”, pp.99-122. 1998b “The gauze hair or the marking of ethnic identity in creole middle réunionnais”, Lesson réunionnaise Tobie Nathan, Legba Production Ethnopsychiatrie ; (CD-ROM chosen at the 7th price Möbius France). On 2001 « Regarding The places of worship to Réunionnais of malagasy origin », Studies Ocean Indian 30 : 171-190. On 2002 « The place of the child in the ritual life of Masa (Chad) », Newspaper of the Africanists 72 (1) : 73-103. On 2003 "plural religious Practices in the island of Meeting", in Kouvouama A., Cochart D. (dir)., transverse Modernity : Citizenship, policy and religion, Editions Paari, Paris, on 2003 : 75-90. On 2004 « calendar rituals and vegetative cycle to Masa (Chad / Cameroon) », Seen again Break-solidarity 5, pp. 71-115. On 2008 “Of The ethnic festivals in the North-Cameroon : a return in the ethnicité ?", Break : "State and societies in Africa : actors' logic", ed. Karthala, Paris (under press).
Articles in magazines without selection panel, syntheses
On 1986 “Stones of life”, The World of the Living being, 8, in March, pp.48-61, (28 photos colours)
2003 “The way of traditional life of Masa”, Tokna Masana, Newspaper of the festival of arts and of culture masa, in March.
Communications in (published) symposiums
1991a “The men always die because of women”, relations men / women in the basin of the lake Chad, in N. Echard (dir)., Paris, ORSTOM, pp.225-247.
1991b “The call to the Gods : word juratoire to Masa of Chad”, oath, in R. Greenfinch (dir)., t.2 :Théories and future, pp. 321-335, Paris : ed. NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.
1995a “Interpretation of illness in malagasy middle Réunionnais”, “Têt ‘vid”, another look on depression, in J.-F. Reverzy (dir.), flight. II, Feeling of faintness in the Ocean Indian, Big Holy ocean Denis de la Réunion and Harmattan, Paris, pp.157-164. 1995b “The destiny of the head”, The worship of skulls to Koma of Cameroon in death in the basin of the lake Chad, collection : Symposiums and Seminars, ORSTOM, Paris, pp. 153-162.
1997a “Regarding The couple : cissus quadrangularis / aloe buettneri Shepherd”, Man and plant middle in the basin of the lake Chad, in Daniel Barreteau (dir)., coll Paris, ORSTOM. Symposiums and Seminars, pp. 339-347.
1997b “The ritual peach of pools in country masa” (Chad), The Man and the water in the basin of the lake Chad, in H. Jungraithmayr, D. Barreteau, U. Seibert (dir.), coll Paris, ORSTOM. Symposiums and Seminars, pp.385-401.
On 1999 “worship linked to the animals to Masa of Chad”, The Man and animal in the basin of the lake Chad, in C. Baroin and J. Boutrais (dir)., coll Paris, ORSTOM. Symposiums and Seminars, pp. 347-370.
On 2004 “Of the possession in the pacification of minds” (Island of Meeting), The Myth : practices, stories, theories, flight. 1 : To the sources of expression. pp. 217-249, Economica, Anthropos, Paris.
On 2008 “pastoral activity and vegetative cycle to Masa (Chad / Cameroon), Newspaper of the Africanists (under press).
Other : secondary publications
Count-returns of works and of theses
On 1978 Report of thesis, “Researches on the social organisation of Masa of Chad”, Newspaper of the Africanists, 48, (2), pp.236-238.
1984 Report of “death is the mask of the king”, the sacred Kingship of Moundang of Chad” by Alfred Adler, The Man, XX1V, 1, pp.107-110.
On 1986 Report from “Widows in African Societies. Choices and constraints by B. Potash (ed.), Notebooks of Africain Studies, XXVI, 3, pp.514-515.
On 1988 Report from “The earth sara, Chadian earth” by J.P. Getting a move on, Notebooks of Africain Studies, 109, XXVIII, 1, pp.136-137.
On 1989 Report of “Violent origins. Walter Burkert, René Girard and Jonathan Z. Smith one Ritual Killing and cultural training, Anthropos, 84, 4/6, pp.599-600.
On 1994 Report from “Between God, the Dead, and the Wild. Chamba Interpretations of Ritual and Religion. ”by Richard Fardon, Anthropos 89, 1/3, pp. 261-262. On 1994 Report “mountain Princes of the north Cameroon” by Jeanne-Françoise Vincent, The Man, XXXIV, 3, pp.179-181.
On 1998 report of thesis of Jean Louatron, on 1998, “Mbassa and Fulna”, clan worship to Musey of Chad, doctoral dissertation (conducted by Mr Michel Cartry), on March, 1998, Paris : Practical School of High Studies, section of Religious Sciences, 441p ; newsletter mega-Chad, international Network of multidisciplinary researches in the basin of the lake Chad, 98/1&2, pp. 50-53.
On 1999 Report of : “Bullfighting and men, Cameroon, Nigeria”, eds. Seignobos, Thys, Paris :Orstom, on 1998, newsletter international Network mega-Chad of multidisciplinary researches in the basin of the lake Chad, n ° 99, 1/2, pp.34-36.
On 2000 Report in “My part of Africa”, Story, by Ferrer Soria José Luis, on 1999, Paris : Karthala, newsletter international Network mega-Chad of multidisciplinary researches in the basin of the lake Chad, n ° 100, 1/2, pp. 53-55.
On 2003 Report of "The initiatory rituals of Dii del' Adamaoua (Cameroon)", by Jean-Claude Muller, Newspaper of the Africanists, 73-1, 2003:180-181.
Filmography
2003a Rituals of possession of malagasy origin in the island of the Meeting, 25’, BetaCam, broadcasting Cell of the seat of the NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH / UMR 8048 2003b « Service 40 days » Transmission of minds after a decease (island of Meeting), 65’, in December, broadcasting Cell of the seat of the NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH / UMR 8048. 2004a "Vel has" Ceremony in favour of minds, (island of Meeting), 15’, BetaCam, broadcasting Cell of the seat of the NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH / UMR 8048, Broadcasting broadcasting NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. 2004b The ghost dance (island of Meeting), 20’, DVCAM, broadcasting Cell of the seat of the NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH / UMR 8048 On 2005 "Vignette « , diaporama for the museum of the called quay Branly Possession of malagasy origin in the island of Meeting 2006 Vel has, ceremony in favour of minds (island of Meeting), 15’ in DVD The Myth, Practical, Stories theories, international Symposium « Psychoanalysis and social practices », NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. 2008a “Base, Vil Kalam”, film of 26’, assemblage P. Arson, DVD, NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH / PARIS, included into the interactive DVD “The ghost dance in the island of Meeting”. 2008b Purification under the waterfall, film of 7’, included into the interactive DVD The ghost dance into the island of Meeting. NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH / PARIS) 2008c "Vel has", ceremony of unveiling in rituals base and beats sézi, 30’. included into the interactive DVD The ghost dance into the island of Meeting, NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH / PARIS.
