"Saluer la souffrance" : représentations des défunts et réseaux de relations dans les rites et les chants funéraires des Moose de l'Ouest (Burkina Faso)
Year: 2009
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This thesis is about funeral rites and songs of the Western moaaga area (Burkina Faso). Considered as belonging to the rog-n-miki field (literally: what we found when we are born , that is what is traditional ) and often involving masks called sukoomse, these rituals take place in the contemporary context of the region, characterized by the cohabitation of several religions and by some migratory phenomena. The funerals are first considered according to the articulation between the substitutes of the dead, the way the living go through the mourning, and the ritual performances which are simultaneously sung. The part of the speech that is sung and the status of its performers are first analysed from a point of view that gives priority to the performance and the context of enunciation within the rite. Secondly the analysis of a corpus of extracts from three funeral wakes allows a semantic approach which complements the one regarding the context of enunciation in the rite. The reconstruction of the dead images in ancestors, and the way the living ones are linked together by particular nodes of relationships are central in the discourses of the singers, with speech being part of the ritual process because it participates in making this double work of reconstructing the dead image and reformulating the social relations.
Author: Alice Degorce
Language: French
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W568573279