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TROY Aurélie
Doctorante at the Practical School of High Studies (Section of Religious Sciences)
Manager of thesis : Michael Houseman
Title of thesis : Stories of loincloths. Routes of female objects to Seereer (Senegal)
Date of inscription : 9/1/2003
Member of the Donatecarcenter.com-Ivry
Anthropology
troy@ivry.cnrs.fr
Ground
Senegal (country Seereer)
Scientific animation
2006/07 : Representative of the doctorants of the site Ivry in the advice of laboratory of Donatecarcenter.com. Organisation and animation of the workshop of the doctorants of the site Ivry du Donatecarcenter.com in form of thematic days.
Research topics
Summary of thesis
At the Seereer du Sine and of the Baby-coast in the Senegal, the loincloths of weaved cotton are objects which keep the women (married and initiated) and appearances of which they manage entirely in the main rituals of passage or of « cycle of life » (birth, introduction, marriage, death). This thesis will redraw the routes which borrow these textile industries, since their manufacture up to their exit on the occasion of village formalities. By describing the way loincloths cross family boots in which they are carefully kept, in rituals, it's all one to me section of the social organisation to seereer that I offer to highlight, the pragmatic point of view of the actresses. So, I will show how biographical courses of objects – this social life which have things – cross biographical feminine courses.
Some hypotheses could be supported in the course of two ethnographic missions of four and ten months each (2000-2001). The attachment which the women seereer have as these objects, as well as the complexity of exchanges putting them into play was confirmed. In speeches, the loincloth is a witness of the ancient time. It is the object par excellence which represents "tradition" and identity. In the course of formalities, it is the sign which marks the entrance in ritual time. It is, finally, what « made run the women » : circulating continuously between them, there is the good which it is necessary to acquire, which it is necessary to keep sheltered from looks in the intimacy of rooms, which it is necessary to bring in the slightest of festivities. Invisible wealth, treasure in the bottom of a boot, the loincloth, when it comes into sight in rituals, becomes what is seen. He hides the persons, parries the dancers and the powerfuls, runs the risk on the walls of houses.
A broad place will therefore be dedicated to the study of ritual action in thesis. These cloths, on which crystallise the representations of a collective past, speak about the past time of a religion seereer on the way to being subordinated to other confessions. But loincloths recall individual pasts just as much : in the relations which take shape the time of a ritual between those who bring loincloths and other partners of exchange (persons who are veiled, who are bedecked with it to dance, who display them or manipulate them) different levels of feelings are conjugated and return in the living, in the experience of the actresses.
By studying in most near the density of female networks mobilised around then in the course of rituals, I will be capable of showing on which modes of the relations of friendship, of consanguinity and of alliance, of neighbourhood or of age group decline such as they are lived. Confronted with local speeches or with models of the anthropologists, this approach is meant to be a dynamic exploration of the modalities of ritual action and social practices. It will be a question of exceeding the simple figurative usage of network word which will be envisaged under the angle of the loincloth as mediator of particular correlations. Quantitative data come from a specific inquiry led to feminine about sixty. The computer processing of results will be envisaged only if it turns out to be necessary for the analysis of forms of links of loincloths listed between them.
Cross looks and methods on practices (ritual usage of loincloths and conditions of their exit) and what they procreate in different registers (emotions, ritual effectiveness, references to tradition as to identity, contexts of experience, individual strategies, modes of actualisation of particular relations), such is the stake of this thesis.
Publications
Seen again to selection panel 
« The loincloths of the circumcising. Separation and emotions in the rituals of introduction seereer (Hireena, Senegal) », Systems of thought in Africa noire18, on 2008 : Feel introduction. (to appear)
University jobs Stories of loincloths : Ritual Dons, circulation and transmission in a bilinéaire society (Sereer Sine du Hireena and of the Baby-coast, Senegal) – Memory of DEA, September, 1999, conducted by Michel Izard (NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH). « Faces of separation in the rituals of masculine and female introduction to Gbaya Kara (Central African Republic) and Ndembu (Zambia) » – Article of DEA, on 1999. Female solidarities and building of female type to Sereer of the Senegal. Cases of Fadiouth (baby-coast) and Fimela (Sine) – Dissertation, June, 1998, conducted by Françoise heir (Secondary school of France).
Translations
Translations of English and of American for the reissue of the Dictionary of Anthropology and of Ethnology, conducted by Michel Izard and coll Pierre Bonte, PUF. Quadriga, Paris, on 2000, 842 p. Alkire, W.H., "Micronesia" Archetti, E.P., « Anthopologie and literature » Darnell, R., hypothesis Sapir-Whorf " and "Postmodernism" Dresch, P., « Domain Arab » Feit, H.A., « Irving A. Hallowell » Whitehead, L., « Indians of the world caraobe » Hann, C., « recent Studies in Central and Eastern Europe » Ingold, T., "Training" Irwin, G.I., "Navigation" Lindberg, C., « Anthropology of the Northern Europe » Melhuus, Mr, « Oscar Lewis » Stoller, P., "Jean Rouch" Whitehead, L., « Indians of the world caraobe »
Lessons
EPHE 2002/2003 ATER in the European Institute in Sciences of Religions (CDD, half post, 11 months) University of Paris-X Nanterre
1999/2000 : Charged with courses (Run Jobs) first year of DEUG : Introduction to ethnology. UFR Social sciences and Administration (Temporary works, 52 hours of courts, 1st semestre). Academic Programs Abroad
1998/1999 : Charged with supplementary courts (Ethnology) and secretary of material (CDD, TP, 5 months).
Stock Markets
2000 : Stock Market of the Foundation Louis Dumont of assistant to research in social anthropology. 2003 : Louis Forest Stock Market - Letters and Human sciences, specialised in foreign Civilisations of the Chancellery of the Universities of Paris.
The most recent communications
Symposium « Relations of consanguinity and networks of circulation of objects », intervention in the thematic workshop « The relations of consanguinity : no more important than ever » on the occasion of meetings Africain Studies : appraisal and knowledges in France, 29, Nov 30th. and 1st déc. On 2006, organised by priority thematic Network " Africain Studies " NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, Paris. Text of online communication : http://www.etudes-africaines.cnrs.fr/communications/troy.pdf
Research seminars « Rivalry, endurance, pleasure : some research tracks to approach childish culture in an Africain society (Seereer, Senegal) », in 08/04/08, knowledges of childhood. Transfer of Knowledge and Children Agency, seminar of Dominique Blanc and Marine Carrin, LISST-CENTRE of Social Anthropology, EHESS / Toulouse II university – Mirail « Cloths and death. Loincloths of the deceaseds, loincloths of deuilleurs in country seereer (Senegal) », in 11/12/07, death and religions. Comparative studies, seminar of Jean-Pierre Albert and of Ann Bouchy, LISST - Centre of Social Anthropology, EHESS / TOULOUSE II UNIVERSITY – Mirail. "Mothers" , "fathers" and "sponsors" of the beginners : some love-hate faces of masculine introduction in Africa. The example of the ndut seereer (Senegal) », 12/21/2006, social Building of sexes and consanguinity, seminar of Agnès Fine, LISST - Centre of Social Anthropology, EHESS / TOULOUSE II UNIVERSITY – Mirail. « Routes of female objects to Seereer (Senegal) », 11/13/2006, as part of the thematic day of the Workshop of the doctorants of the Centre of studies of the Africain worlds site Ivry) Circulation of property, circulation of objects, NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. « Ritual job of the women and maternal link in the introduction of the boys seereer (Senegal) », 2/3/2006, comparative Approach of the sexual division of worship in the societies of the rivers of the south, education of Odile Journet, EPHE.
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