In Sub-Saharan civilizations, myth has always been a driving force for the foundation and the spreading of ancestral cultural values. It also helps individuals be in perpetual contact with the invisible and the real (visible) world to guarantee their formation and their evolution, and plays the role of a societal reorganizer mostly in particular situations for a better social cohesion. This cultural legacy is conveyed through ideologies related to supernatural forces and to different social representations transmitted to Sub-Saharan Africans through events organized within societies. As a matter of fact, our study intends to show how myth succeeds in maintaining some Black African practices such as circumcision, excision, ndëpp , tattooing,...
International audienceBased on an ethnography conducted in the urban margins of Dakar (Senegal) and ...
Anxious to uncover « myths » and « cosmogonies » attesting to an uncontaminated Africaness, Africani...
This dissertation aims to show how the enslavement of African peoples on the African continent and i...
The aim of this study is to examine the myths of African culture as elements of information in memor...
At the present time, certain researchers have put forth the idea of Ancient Egypt’s African origins....
This article explores how the symbolic classifications of African descent are explained in the tales...
Résumé L’arrivée de la civilisation occidentale et dela modernité en Afrique, a occasionné une certa...
Cette thèse a pour objectif de montrer un des impacts de l'esclavage sur l'histoire des peuples afri...
The importance of funeral ritual in Black Africa has impressed the observers. They have analysed the...
PEREIRA, Cleyciane Cássia Moreira; FARIAS, Maria Giovanna Guedes. Análise de mitos africanos em uma ...
International audienceThe aim of this paper is to retrace the existence of prehistoric Saharan myths...
IN THIS WORK, WE HAVE SET UP A DOUBLE PROJECT – OBJECT OF RESEARCH. ON ONE HAND, WE HAVE STUDIED HOW...
Abstract No traditional centralized political authority exists among the Ngambay in the South-West o...
The degree of cultural variation from one part of Lugbara to another is so great that there appears ...
International audienceAndré Gide and Marc Allégret witnessed a ganza initiation dance of the Banda o...
International audienceBased on an ethnography conducted in the urban margins of Dakar (Senegal) and ...
Anxious to uncover « myths » and « cosmogonies » attesting to an uncontaminated Africaness, Africani...
This dissertation aims to show how the enslavement of African peoples on the African continent and i...
The aim of this study is to examine the myths of African culture as elements of information in memor...
At the present time, certain researchers have put forth the idea of Ancient Egypt’s African origins....
This article explores how the symbolic classifications of African descent are explained in the tales...
Résumé L’arrivée de la civilisation occidentale et dela modernité en Afrique, a occasionné une certa...
Cette thèse a pour objectif de montrer un des impacts de l'esclavage sur l'histoire des peuples afri...
The importance of funeral ritual in Black Africa has impressed the observers. They have analysed the...
PEREIRA, Cleyciane Cássia Moreira; FARIAS, Maria Giovanna Guedes. Análise de mitos africanos em uma ...
International audienceThe aim of this paper is to retrace the existence of prehistoric Saharan myths...
IN THIS WORK, WE HAVE SET UP A DOUBLE PROJECT – OBJECT OF RESEARCH. ON ONE HAND, WE HAVE STUDIED HOW...
Abstract No traditional centralized political authority exists among the Ngambay in the South-West o...
The degree of cultural variation from one part of Lugbara to another is so great that there appears ...
International audienceAndré Gide and Marc Allégret witnessed a ganza initiation dance of the Banda o...
International audienceBased on an ethnography conducted in the urban margins of Dakar (Senegal) and ...
Anxious to uncover « myths » and « cosmogonies » attesting to an uncontaminated Africaness, Africani...
This dissertation aims to show how the enslavement of African peoples on the African continent and i...