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Un rituel d'humanisation des nourrissons, le kabuatã manjak. (Guinée-Bissau/Sénégal)
Author(s) -
Maria Teixeira
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal des africanistes
Language(s) - French
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1957-7850
pISSN - 0399-0346
DOI - 10.3406/jafr.2001.1267
Subject(s) - identity (music) , divination , humanity , rite , art , humanities , construct (python library) , rite of passage , ethnology , literature , history , philosophy , sociology , anthropology , theology , aesthetics , computer science , programming language
Manjak mothers who have lost all their previous children at a young age, submit themselves, following divination, to the kabuatã fertility rite, in the course of which they undergo a change of identity and accompany their newborn's transformation. For three years, the infant, who remains linked to both the visible and the invisible world, is shaped so as to fixate the child in the world of men and to construct his or her humanity. The symbolism linked to bodily fluids and excretions discloses the workings of divinatory language, the sacrifice and reveals Manjak representations of childhood.Chez les Manjak, les femmes qui perdent successivement tous leurs enfants en bas âge se soumettent, après divination, au rituel de fertilité du kabuatã au cours duquel elles vont changer d'identité et accompagner la transformation de leur nourrisson. Pendant trois ans, le petit être relevant d'une double appartenance au monde visible et invisible va être façonné de manière à le fixer dans le monde des hommes et à construire son humanité. Le symbolisme des fluides et excréments corporels nous permet d'appréhender le langage divinatoire, le sacrifice et les représentation de la petite enfance chez les Manjak.Teixeira Maria. Un rituel d'humanisation des nourrissons, le kabuatã manjak. (Guinée-Bissau/Sénégal). In: Journal des africanistes, 2001, tome 71, fascicule 2. pp. 7-31

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