This chapter briefly presents the biography of Londósa, a ritual leader or 'komoru' of the Chari Suri people in southwestern Ethiopia and shows how a personal case study can highlight the social... Show moreThis chapter briefly presents the biography of Londósa, a ritual leader or 'komoru' of the Chari Suri people in southwestern Ethiopia and shows how a personal case study can highlight the social problems of an ethnic group. Suri face a crisis of security and of social continuity. Both their physical security and their food security are at risk, and they have enduring tense relations with neighbouring peoples and with the Ethiopian State. Like other ethnic groups (e.g. Nyangatom, Toposa, Anywaa, Meen) they use armed force to defend themselves or contest resources. The relatively quick "militarization" of societies like the Suri in the last 15 years has brought new problems and challenges. Londósa, as the Suri ritual mediator and leader, recognized the problems emerging and called for restraint to Suri exercise of violence but with little effect. He was powerless to prevent the gradual deterioration of internal social relations in Suri society resulting from this militarization. Feelings of powerlessness and deception with the way Suri society was developing undoubtedly contributed to his early death in June 2000. Includes bibliographical references, notes, and summary [Book abstract] Show less
Cette contribution compare les m‚thodologies et les ‚pist‚mologies r‚ciproques de la missiologie et de l'anthropologie en tant que disciplines. Selon l'auteur, le but initial de l'anthropologie... Show moreCette contribution compare les m‚thodologies et les ‚pist‚mologies r‚ciproques de la missiologie et de l'anthropologie en tant que disciplines. Selon l'auteur, le but initial de l'anthropologie est de d‚crire, d'analyser et de contextualiser toutes les variations culturelles de l'humanit‚. Mais l' anthropologie a connu des changements paradigmatiques; la notion de culture s'est transform‚e: les solutions de la g‚n‚ration pr‚c‚dente sont r‚invent‚es dans l'interaction sociale d'aujourd'hui. La nouvelle conception de la culture est capitale pour comprendre la relation entre missiologie et anthropologie. Li‚e … une croyance bien d‚finie, la position ‚pist‚mologique de la missiologie est tout … fait diff‚rente. Son point de d‚part est celui d'une v‚rit‚ revendiqu‚e, voire d'une r‚flexion orient‚e dans le but d'une expansion du message, en principe grƒce … une ‚tude syst‚matique et objective des autres croyances. Le dilemme que repr‚sente pour les missionnaires la "double loyaut‚", dans sa position d'ˆtre … la fois le repr‚sentant du message chr‚tien et l'observateur de l'autre, peut sembler r‚solu dans la cr‚ation des glises ind‚pendantes africaines, qui permet … la fois d'"avoir raison" tout en respectant l'autre. AprŠs avoir not‚ les diff‚rences ‚pist‚mologiques des deux disciplines, l'auteur montre quels sont leurs points communs. L'ethnologue comme le missionnaire participent dans une interaction restreinte, et mˆme instrumentale, au milieu culturel au sein duquel ils se trouvent et travaillent. Ils ‚tablissent un lieu de "culture interm‚diaire": la situation fondamentale de leur terrain respectif est plus semblable que leurs ‚pist‚mologies divergentes ne le laissent supposer. Mais cela ne veut pas dire que les deux disciplines soient en train de s'unifier progressivement. C'est seulement dans les ann‚es d'‚mergence de l'ethnologie que la missiologie en devint un des piliers, qui sont graduellement remplac‚s par des piliers proprement anthropologiques. Indig‚nis‚e, la missiologie quant … elle emprunte d‚sormais son propre chemin. Bibliogr., notes, r‚f. [R‚sum‚ ASC Leiden] Show less
This introductory chapter sketches globalization and Africa in broad theoretical terms, examining the meaning of the term globalization; the impact of globalization on daily life in Africa in... Show moreThis introductory chapter sketches globalization and Africa in broad theoretical terms, examining the meaning of the term globalization; the impact of globalization on daily life in Africa in economic as well as sociocultural terms; globalization as a historical phenomenon; the political aspects of globalization; its spatial dynamics: migration and transmigration, and the relationship of transnationalism with the emergence of new religious forms; and the contribution of anthropology to the field of globalization studies. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] Show less
This introductory chapter sketches globalization and Africa in broad theoretical terms, examining the meaning of the term globalization; the impact of globalization on daily life in Africa in... Show moreThis introductory chapter sketches globalization and Africa in broad theoretical terms, examining the meaning of the term globalization; the impact of globalization on daily life in Africa in economic as well as sociocultural terms; globalization as a historical phenomenon; the political aspects of globalization; its spatial dynamics: migration and transmigration, and the relationship of transnationalism with the emergence of new religious forms; and the contribution of anthropology to the field of globalization studies. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] Show less
