International audienceThe Rwa, eastern neighbours of the Arusha, farm the densely populated slopes of Mount Meru, facing Mount Kilimanjaro. Their age-system has a long history. Unlike in less structured nomadic societies in which the age-system substitutes for a political structure, the Rwa age-system is part of a highly developed sociopolitical organisation. They have a centralised chieftaincy and powerful patrilinear clans involved in family and land matters. We will first describe the logic and structure of this age-system, and compare it to neighbouring ones, namely those of the Maasai and Arusha. The various functions this age-system fulfils in daily life will then be described. Its role is no longer military, but it still carries cogn...
International audienceThe Rwa are bantu farmers living on the south-eastern slopes of Mount Meru in ...
Les pasteurs maasai du nord de la Tanzanie représentent l'une des sociétés les moins scolarisées du ...
The Masai are nomadic pastoralists living in parts of what is now Kenya and Tanzania. This entry foc...
International audienceThe Rwa, eastern neighbours of the Arusha, farm the densely populated slopes o...
Les Rwa, proches voisins des Arusha, occupent les flancs orientaux du mont Méru, face au mont Kilima...
The Rwa farm the densely populated slopes of Mount Meru, facing Mount Kilimanjaro. Their age system ...
The Rwa farm the densely populated slopes of Mount Meru, facing Mount Kilimanjaro. Their age system ...
Ce texte a été rédigé en vue de constituer une série de posters dans un musée culturel local.Sa trad...
En Tanzanie face au mont Kilimandjaro, un petit peuple d’agriculteurs, les Rwa du mont Meru, s’est d...
Not much is known about the traditional social organization of the Kikuyu (Kenya) because their syst...
In the frame of East-African ethnography, the sociological bearing of generation, as a distinct prin...
International audienceEntre le VIIe et XIIIe siècle de notre ère, la région interlacustre se caracté...
Y. Person—The Age-Sets System of the Tangba and Yowa (Djougou District). The Tangba (Taneka) and Yow...
Cette thèse se propose d’explorer le lien qui existe entre le système d’âge des Samburu du Kenya et ...
A. REPERAGES LINGUISTIQUE ET GEOGRAPHIQUE DU PAYS MERU.Les Meru sont des locuteurs bantous d'Afrique...
International audienceThe Rwa are bantu farmers living on the south-eastern slopes of Mount Meru in ...
Les pasteurs maasai du nord de la Tanzanie représentent l'une des sociétés les moins scolarisées du ...
The Masai are nomadic pastoralists living in parts of what is now Kenya and Tanzania. This entry foc...
International audienceThe Rwa, eastern neighbours of the Arusha, farm the densely populated slopes o...
Les Rwa, proches voisins des Arusha, occupent les flancs orientaux du mont Méru, face au mont Kilima...
The Rwa farm the densely populated slopes of Mount Meru, facing Mount Kilimanjaro. Their age system ...
The Rwa farm the densely populated slopes of Mount Meru, facing Mount Kilimanjaro. Their age system ...
Ce texte a été rédigé en vue de constituer une série de posters dans un musée culturel local.Sa trad...
En Tanzanie face au mont Kilimandjaro, un petit peuple d’agriculteurs, les Rwa du mont Meru, s’est d...
Not much is known about the traditional social organization of the Kikuyu (Kenya) because their syst...
In the frame of East-African ethnography, the sociological bearing of generation, as a distinct prin...
International audienceEntre le VIIe et XIIIe siècle de notre ère, la région interlacustre se caracté...
Y. Person—The Age-Sets System of the Tangba and Yowa (Djougou District). The Tangba (Taneka) and Yow...
Cette thèse se propose d’explorer le lien qui existe entre le système d’âge des Samburu du Kenya et ...
A. REPERAGES LINGUISTIQUE ET GEOGRAPHIQUE DU PAYS MERU.Les Meru sont des locuteurs bantous d'Afrique...
International audienceThe Rwa are bantu farmers living on the south-eastern slopes of Mount Meru in ...
Les pasteurs maasai du nord de la Tanzanie représentent l'une des sociétés les moins scolarisées du ...
The Masai are nomadic pastoralists living in parts of what is now Kenya and Tanzania. This entry foc...