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n°18 Feel introduction
Feel introduction
Michael Houseman
Michael Houseman : Presentation
Aurélie Troy : The loincloths of the circumcising. Separation and emotions in the rituals of introduction seereer (Hireena, Senegal)
David Berliner : Transmit fright and fascination. Memory of an initiatory correlation in country bulongic (Republic of Guinea)
Julian Good-natured : Tears or blows. Affects and relations in introduction in the bwete misoko (Gabon)
Odile Journet-Diallo : Introduction bets in derision
Marianne Lemaire : Doubt and pain. Introductions and affects in sénoufo (Ivory Coast) country
Martin Holbraad : Relationships in motion : oracular recruitment and ontological definition in Cuban Ifá cults
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Favour the emotional dimensions of initiatory process : such was the proposal of the sales talk distributed with the aim of this number of the magazine Systems of thought in Black Africa. The contributors were invited to explore outlines and springs of the rituals of introduction by putting the emphasis less on functions which it is possible to admit to them or on the ideas-stocks which they transport, that on emotional experiments that they make happen. To take back expression of F. Berthomé, it was a question of envisaging the initiatory context not only « from the point of view of one to act specific », but especially « from the point of view of one to suffer specific ». Where from title : Feel introduction. The first one left this presentation offers some general reflexion on place of emotions in ritual performances, on initiatory experience and its links with training and transformation, and on phenomena of secret and of violence which includes introduction. In second time, the number are introduced and one comment on them in the light of this reflexion the contributions of. READ CONTINUATION
Summed up n°18 Aurélie Troy : « The loincloths of the circumcising. Separation and emotions in the rituals of introduction seereer (Hireena, Senegal) », Systems of thought in Black Africa 18, on 2008, pp. 41-104.
The preliminary rituals of the masculine introduction of the Seereer du Hireena in the Senegal are envisaged under several angles : relational, emotional and material. The analysis of emotional states made visible when the beginners are taken in brush passes necessarily by the taking into consideration of different points of view which the participants have on action. The white loincloths, which hide the candidates and reveal them at the same time, appear decisive in the games of looks and of dissimulation which put on then in place. The examination of progression which perform these textile industries in this masculine ritual highlights the job of the women which is necessary for it. So, through this female object as the loincloth is, this text shows how the rituals of separation transform maternal link straightaway and return already efficient in itself this first stage of complex group of rituals.
Key words : masculine introduction - cloths - rituals of passage - separation - relation mother / thread - emotions - Seereer - Serer - Senegal.
David Berliner : « Transmit fright and fascination. Memory of an initiatory correlation in country bulongic (Republic of Guinea) », Systems of thought in Black Africa 18, on 2008, pp. 105-131.
In Monchon, a bulongic village today Islamized, the « male circumcision of 1954 » was the last masculine introduction. The old men who lived this event proclaim to be last Bulongic " . However, the bulongic country remains heir of its religious past, made by introductions, invisible entities, of sacred forests and secrets. The author offers to explore the historical future of a society of introduction and to show which type of memory she can put into play in the cloth of village correlations today. In a society more than ever gérontocratique, the old initiating continue using their power of threat on the young people of the village, and producing an invention of initiatory type.
Key words : religious transmission - secret - introduction - relation father / son - Republic of Guinea.
Julian Good-natured : « Tears and blows. Affects and relations in introduction in the bwete misoko (Gabon) », Systems of thought in Black Africa 18, on 2008, pp. 133-163.
This article analyses the expression of affects in the course of introduction in Bwete Misoko, a ritual gabonais based on the ingestion of a hallucinogène plant. This affects is envisaged neither as private feelings, nor as conventional public signs, but first as the emergent products of correlations between agents. In the course of initiatory process, transformation of asymmetrical relations between the wizard and his victim, the soothsayer and his patient, the initiating and the originator indeed allows the conversion of a passive affect into an active affect. The author offers a reflexion so on the mode of pronunciation between relations and affects within initiatory ritual, as well as on the springs of ritual effectiveness.
Key words : introduction - correlation - emotion - healing - prophesying - vision - sorcery - Gabon.
Odile Journet-Diallo : « Introduction bets in derision », Systems of thought in Black Africa 18, on 2008, pp. 165-192.
In country jóola (south of the Senegal, north of Guinea-Bissau), the women whose union remains sterile or from whom the children die prematurely are subjected to a long ritual which borrows the form of an introduction but distinguishes itself from it by its widely public and spectacular character. The paradoxical way articulate, on bottom of an individual drama, bullying, humiliations and obliged behaviours of buffoonery invites to think on the springs of a ritual which has as feature to caricature its own techniques right when it puts them in acts.
Key words : Jóola - sterility - mourning - buffoonery - Guinea-Bissau - Senegal.
Marianne Lemaire : « Doubt and pain. Introductions and affects in sénoufo (Ivory Coast) country », Systems of thought in Black Africa 18, on 2008, pp. 193-218.
The beginners of two main introductions sénoufo do not test the same suffering. The applicants of introduction in the poro endure a mainly physical suffering, the applicant of the sandogi is subjected to a principally moral suffering, which takes the form of a doubt on the authenticity of its election. This doubt is the distinctive mark of an introduction which, contrary to compulsory introduction in the poro, recruits its members by means of election. But the presence of doubt in the middle of introduction in the sandogi is also fond its being a female introduction. As well as physical suffering participates in the radical transformation which masculine introductions envisage for their beginners, moral suffering favours the transformation female introductions of which seem to make plan.
Key words : doubt - suffering - female / masculine introduction - election - Sénoufo - Ivory Coast.
Martin Holbraad : « Reports in movement : oraculaire election and ontological definition in the worship of Ifá in Cuba », Systems of thought in Black Africa 18, on 2008, pp. 219-264.
From an ethnography of ground among the initiating in the worship of masculine prophesying of Ifá in Havana, a classical problem in anthropology is approached : what want to tell the practitioners when they maintain that introduction transforms them ? By leaning over the way prophesying makes felt to the neophytes that they are "called" , they note that this introduction allows an accumulation of reports with deities and with others initiated. These reports are internal in sense where they concern the definition of the neophyte as anybody. So that this idea does not appear as an absurdity of logical point of view, it is necessary to reconsider in depth a series of presupposing concerning the nature of this transformation and the notions of obligation and person.
Key words : introduction - prophesying - notion of person - worship of Ifá - Cuba.
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Aurélie Troy : « Loincloths of the circumcised : separation and emotions in Seereer introduction (Hireena, Senegal) », Systems of thought in Black Africa 18, on 2008, pp. 41-104. The preliminary rituals in the introduction of Seereer Hireena boys (Senegal) are examined from several angles : relational, emotional and material. Analyzing affects, visible when neophytes are led into the wilderness, must take into consideration participants’ varied dawned of views. White loincloths, which both " Hide " and " reveal " neophytes, are decisive in the interplay of glances and dissimulation. The employ made of these textile industries during male introduction shed light one the work of women, has part necessary of the ritual. Owing to the display and employs of loincloths, thus proving the effectiveness of this first has feminine object loaded with affects, we see how these rituals of separation transform the maternal bound, stage in has complex ritual.
Key words : Male introduction - textile industries - rituals of passage - separation - mother / sound relationship - emotions - Seereer - Serer - Senegal.
David Berliner : « Bequeathing fear and fascination : the memory of introduction among the Bulongic (Guinea) », Systems of thought in Black Africa 18, on 2008, pp. 105-131. In Monchon, has now Islamicized Bulongic village, the « circumcision of on 1954 » the last male ceremony introduction. Nevertheless, the Bulongic have inherited their religious past, with its introductions, invisible force, sacred groves and secrets. Old men who took leaves in this ceremony claim to be the « last Bulongic ». The evolution of a year initiatory society simple percentage explored, along with the memory of it in the web of correlations between villagers nowadays. In has society more " Gerontocratic " than ever, old initiates uninterrupted using their power of threat over young people in the village and thus construct initiatory fate has invention of a year.
Key words : religious transmission - secret - introduction - father / sound relationship - Guinea.
Julian Good-natured : « Tears and shocks. Affects and relations during introduction to the bwete misoko (Gabon) », Systems of thought in Black Africa 18, on 2008, pp. 133-163.
How are affects expressed during introduction to the Bwete Misoko, has ritual in based Gabon one ingesting has hallucinogenic young plant ? Affects are taken to be neither private feelings conventional public nor signals. Instead, they seen are ace coming out of correlations between agents. During the initiatory process, transforming asymmetrical relations between sorcerer and victim, diviner and patient, neophyte and initiator, allows for turning has year passive affect into hurries up one. How are relations and affects articulated during initiatory rituals ? What account for the ceremony' s effectiveness ?
Key words : introduction - correlation - affects - healing - prophesying - vision - witchcraft - Gabon.
Odile Journet-Diallo : « Making has introduction mockery of », Systems of thought in Black Africa 18, on 2008, pp. 165-192.
Among the Dyola (southern Senegal, northern Guinea-Bissau), women who remain sterile and whose children die very young undergo has long ritual that, though taking the form of introduction, stands apart owing to its rather staging public. The paradoxical portrayal, against the backdrop of has personal drama, of acts of taunting, bullying, humiliation and buffoonery raises questions end the underpinnings of ceremony that mocks its own procedures even has ace it enacts them.
Key words : Dyola - female sterility - grievance - buffoonery - Guinea-Bissau - Senegal.
Marianne Lemaire : « Doubt and bread : introductions and affects among the Senufo (Ivory Coast) », Systems of thought in Black Africa 18, on 2008, pp. 193-218.
Persons undergoing the two major Senufo introductions do not experience the same suffering. Initiates to the poro endures has mainly physical suffering, whereas initiates to the sandogi are subject to has morale mainly suffering that consists of doubts end the authenticity of being chosen to become year initiate. These doubts, at the very heart of the sandogi, are the distinctive mark of a year introduction that, unlike the compulsory, collective introduction to the poro, recruits members by choosing them. They are also related to the fact that the initiates women are. Just ace physical suffering enters into the transformation radical that young male initiates are to experience, this moral suffering fosters the exchange rates that are in line with what seems to be the objectifies women' s introduction.
Key words : doubt - suffering - to lie s / women' s introduction - election - Ivory Coast.
Martin Holbraad : « Relationships in motion : oracular recruitment and ontological definition in Cuban Ifá cults », Systems of thought in Black Africa 18, on 2008, pp. 219-264.
Based one ethnographic fieldwork in Havana among initiates of the male diviner-cult of Ifá, this paper addresses the classical anthropological conundrum of how to make sense of practitioners’ contention that introduction transforms them into " new people " . Taking into account the role of prophesying in " Calling " neophytes, it simple percentage shown that Ifá introduction involves a year accumulation of relationships with deities and fellow initiates that are " Internal " in the sense that they pertain to the very definition of the neophyte ace has person. It simple percentage argued that for such has notion not to appear logically absurd (" apparently irrational ") it simple percentage necessary to re-aims radically series of analytical assumptions regarding the has nature of exchange rate, obligation and personhood.
Key words : introduction - prophesying - notion of person - Ifá cult - Cuba.
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