http://books.openedition.org/editionsmsh/1185International audienceThis book is a study of the social organization and religious thought of the Watchi people of South-east Togo. Its principal argument consists in revealing the systematic correlation that exists between the two - agnatic and uterine - axes of watchi kinship and two logical modes of symbolic thinking - contiguity and substitution. Kinship thus no longer constitutes a domain among others, but becomes the key to all domains of watchi society. This study endeavors to demonstrate it by applying this key to different "entrance ways" into the watchi symbolic system, such as origin stories (ch. 2), spatial morphology (ch. 3), the matrimonial system (ch. 4), funeral rites (ch. 5), re...
Kinship, ritual, social organization : the Sioux case. Bringing the ritual into the focus of interpr...
In Guin society (Burkina Faso), a child's father has always (at least till the 1980s) been the mothe...
This work is an analysis of Mambila religion based on fieldwork in Somie village, Cameroon. An eth...
http://books.openedition.org/editionsmsh/1185International audienceThis book is a study of the socia...
International audienceThe article examines the symbolic function of Watchi sacred forests and relate...
The social pattern of Ngazidja island shows a matrilineal filiation and a uxori-matrilocality. Islam...
The social pattern of Ngazidja island shows a matrilineal filiation and a uxori-matrilocality. Islam...
The ethno-historical study took place in the Oueme valley, located in south-east Bénin. The history ...
The ethno-historical study took place in the Oueme valley, located in south-east Bénin. The history ...
Abstract Building and reflecting on the pioneering work of Pierre Verger, who undertook the first in...
Abstract Building and reflecting on the pioneering work of Pierre Verger, who undertook the first in...
God of the land and water, and messianism among the Pwo Karen (Thaïland) The rites performed for th...
De Heusch Luc. Mythe et société féodale. Le culte du kubandwa dans le Rwanda traditionnel. In: Archi...
God of the land and water, and messianism among the Pwo Karen (Thaïland) The rites performed for th...
Kinship, ritual, social organization : the Sioux case. Bringing the ritual into the focus of interpr...
Kinship, ritual, social organization : the Sioux case. Bringing the ritual into the focus of interpr...
In Guin society (Burkina Faso), a child's father has always (at least till the 1980s) been the mothe...
This work is an analysis of Mambila religion based on fieldwork in Somie village, Cameroon. An eth...
http://books.openedition.org/editionsmsh/1185International audienceThis book is a study of the socia...
International audienceThe article examines the symbolic function of Watchi sacred forests and relate...
The social pattern of Ngazidja island shows a matrilineal filiation and a uxori-matrilocality. Islam...
The social pattern of Ngazidja island shows a matrilineal filiation and a uxori-matrilocality. Islam...
The ethno-historical study took place in the Oueme valley, located in south-east Bénin. The history ...
The ethno-historical study took place in the Oueme valley, located in south-east Bénin. The history ...
Abstract Building and reflecting on the pioneering work of Pierre Verger, who undertook the first in...
Abstract Building and reflecting on the pioneering work of Pierre Verger, who undertook the first in...
God of the land and water, and messianism among the Pwo Karen (Thaïland) The rites performed for th...
De Heusch Luc. Mythe et société féodale. Le culte du kubandwa dans le Rwanda traditionnel. In: Archi...
God of the land and water, and messianism among the Pwo Karen (Thaïland) The rites performed for th...
Kinship, ritual, social organization : the Sioux case. Bringing the ritual into the focus of interpr...
Kinship, ritual, social organization : the Sioux case. Bringing the ritual into the focus of interpr...
In Guin society (Burkina Faso), a child's father has always (at least till the 1980s) been the mothe...
This work is an analysis of Mambila religion based on fieldwork in Somie village, Cameroon. An eth...