{"title":"Barnett Tertia, 2019, An Engraved Landscape. Rock Carvings in the Wadi al-Ajal, Libya","authors":"C. Dupuy","doi":"10.4000/africanistes.10160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/africanistes.10160","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14839,"journal":{"name":"Journal Des Africanistes","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84097614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Isis Mesfin, D. Pleurdeau, Marie Josée Angue Zogo, Alice Leplongeon
{"title":"Le Middle Stone Age dans le bassin du Congo. Un regard historiographique","authors":"Isis Mesfin, D. Pleurdeau, Marie Josée Angue Zogo, Alice Leplongeon","doi":"10.4000/africanistes.9903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/africanistes.9903","url":null,"abstract":"Alors qu’une grande partie du continent africain revele d’importants vestiges du Middle Stone Age temoignant de l’emergence et de la diffusion d’Homo sapiens sur le continent des le Pleistocene moyen, les connaissances sur le role du bassin du Congo dans les dynamiques de peuplement continentales et regionales restent pauvres. La rare preservation des vestiges osseux et de la stratigraphie sur les sites pleistocenes de plein air est souvent consideree comme le principal ecueil. Mais, pres d’un siecle apres la creation du premier facies culturel prehistorique regional de l’Afrique centrale, celui de la Tumbakultur, le bilan historiographique du Middle Stone Age du bassin du Congo suggere que la nomenclature, la diversite methodologique des approches sur les pierres taillees et la fragmentation des savoirs et des collections prehistoriques sont autant de facteurs a prendre en compte afin de deployer de nouvelles perspectives de recherches en prehistoire.","PeriodicalId":14839,"journal":{"name":"Journal Des Africanistes","volume":"101 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85868745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The fire now? A Meditation on Shattered Dreams of Racial Harmony","authors":"Christiane Owusu-Sarpong","doi":"10.4000/africanistes.10470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/africanistes.10470","url":null,"abstract":"A centuries-long history of displacement has connected Africa, Europe and America. Recent events demonstrate that, even though racism and segregation are now legally banned, basic human rights continue to be denied to people categorized as “black” the world over. This essay recalls the pan-African perspective which once united the powerful voices of African American Civil Rights activists and Diasporic intellectuals to those emerging from decolonizing Africa. It further shows that, since the 20th century pioneers’ dreams of Racial Harmony were shattered, the contemporary “black” (African American and African European) intelligentsia declares that, unless the Western “system of privilege” in place undergoes fundamental changes (including a rewriting of History), the anger felt by the mass of deprived people of color, tumbling down the statues of fallen heroes from a questionable colonial past, will inevitably lead to The Fire Now. But, drawing on positive memories from my life in Ghana and on inspirational autobiographies by writers and artists of diverse heritage, I prefer to join the ranks of Kwame Anthony Appiah’s “cosmopolitan humanists”, declaring: “We do not have to deal decently with people from other cultures and traditions in spite of our differences; we can treat others, decently, humanly through our differences”.","PeriodicalId":14839,"journal":{"name":"Journal Des Africanistes","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75112530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Les hommages africains de Georges Balandier","authors":"J. Copans","doi":"10.4000/africanistes.10143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/africanistes.10143","url":null,"abstract":"Hommage a Georges Balandier (collectif), 2018,Presence africaine 194, [1er semestre 2016 ; paru en 2018].Tamba Moustapha (dir.), 2019, Georges Balandier et l’Afrique, Dakar, L’Harmattan-Senegal.Ossebi Henri, Tchikaya-Oboa Regine, Goyendzi Raoul (dir.), 2019, Retour aux « Brazzavilles noires ». Hommage a Georges Balandier, preface de Monique Hirschhorn, Paris, L’Harmattan. Georges Balandier n’a jamais publie d’article dans le Journal des africanistes mais la Societe des africanistes a publie, ...","PeriodicalId":14839,"journal":{"name":"Journal Des Africanistes","volume":"165 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73116831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coppet Marcel de, Gide André, 2020, Gide & la question coloniale. Correspondance avec Marcel de Coppet, 1924-1950, édition établie par Hélène Bat","authors":"Julien Bondaz","doi":"10.4000/africanistes.10174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/africanistes.10174","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14839,"journal":{"name":"Journal Des Africanistes","volume":"190 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86823053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fontaine Hugues, 2020, Ménélik. Une Abyssinie des photographes (1868-1916)","authors":"Serge Dewel","doi":"10.4000/africanistes.10178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/africanistes.10178","url":null,"abstract":"Posons d’emblee qu’il s’agit avant tout d’un ouvrage d’iconographie et que, par consequent, la part importante de ce travail – et donc de son interet – se trouve refletee par la richesse du catalogue iconographique qu’un texte leger vient eclairer (410 photographies, illustrations et cartes). Sur ce plan, le livre offre une grande qualite, tant par le travail precis de reproduction des documents que par les choix editoriaux (mise en pages, type de papier et typographie). Bref, un tres beau li...","PeriodicalId":14839,"journal":{"name":"Journal Des Africanistes","volume":"262 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75944094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Audard Alexandre, 2020, Libertalia. Une République des pirates à Madagascar. Interprétation d’un mythe (xviie-","authors":"F. V. Rajaonah","doi":"10.4000/africanistes.10153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/africanistes.10153","url":null,"abstract":"Alexandre Audard, membre du laboratoire CESSMA (Centre d’etudes en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains, americains et asiatiques) et doctorant en histoire de l’Afrique a l’universite de Paris, publie ici son memoire de master. Selon le seul recit du capitaine Charles Johnson, alias Daniel Defoe, Libertalia, situee dans une baie au nord de Diego-Suarez, aurait abrite, fin xviie-debut xviiie siecle, une « Republique des pirates », creee par le gentilhomme provencal Misson et le pretre it...","PeriodicalId":14839,"journal":{"name":"Journal Des Africanistes","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83174718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Le plastique, c’est magique ? Circulation et technique de fabrication des perles magico-religieuses à Madagascar","authors":"Olivia Legrip-Randriambelo, M. Perrier","doi":"10.4000/africanistes.9955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/africanistes.9955","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article explore la materialite des perles utilisees dans la conception de « charmes » a Madagascar d’une maniere continue sur plus d’une centaine d’annees. Il se base sur la comparaison de donnees et d’objets rassembles vers 1915 par Charles Renel avec ceux obtenus lors d’une enquete ethnographique et d’une collecte de perles contemporaines menee par le musee des Confluences en 2018. Ce travail interroge l’usage des perles – en tant qu’element, parmi d’autres, constitutif des charmes (ody) – a travers le temps, l’histoire des materiaux qui composent ces perles (du verre au plastique recycle), les modalites de leur circulation (importation puis artisanat de proximite), les techniques de fabrication et les espaces de vente contemporains. En placant en regard les collections du xixe siecle et celles du xxie siecle, il met en evidence la permanence des noms donnes aux perles, des symboles qui leur sont attaches et du design qui perdure au-dela du changement de materiau. Enfin, ce travail examine les mecanismes qui conduisent a donner de l’efficacite aux perles, dans un usage magico-religieux qui s’adapte sans cesse au changement.","PeriodicalId":14839,"journal":{"name":"Journal Des Africanistes","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75475935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Migrations forcées des africains subsahariens : Maghreb, Al-Andalus, péninsule Ibérique. Une synthèse","authors":"R. Botte","doi":"10.4000/africanistes.9820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/africanistes.9820","url":null,"abstract":"L’institution servile, jamais abolie dans l’Antiquite grecque et romaine, a survecu sans interruption sur les deux rives de la Mediterranee jusqu’a la fin du xixe siecle. Les esclaves y etaient de differentes couleurs, origines, religions ; mais on s’interesse principalement ici aux Africains subsahariens dans Al-Andalus et en Europe meridionale. On detaille les differentes traites associees aux diasporas forcees. On examine les cultes confreriques noirs tant au Maghreb que dans la peninsule Iberique. L’accent est mis sur quelques figures emblematiques, esclaves ou affranchis, qui se sont imposees comme sujets autonomes. Les differences avec le paradigme atlantique sont soulignees : ampleur du phenomene mediterraneen et transsaharien, pas d’esclavage de plantation, absence de revoltes serviles, disparition des Afro-descendants malgre la deportation de centaines de milliers d’esclaves au Portugal, en Espagne et en Italie.","PeriodicalId":14839,"journal":{"name":"Journal Des Africanistes","volume":"123 11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80471209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}