2015
DOI: 10.3917/lautr.045.0346
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Épouser l’ essuf (l’invisible) : rites de passages et de guérison chez les Touaregs de l’Ahaggar (Sahara algérien)

Abstract: évitablement d'autres populations et d'autres influences culturelles entrent en jeu dans un même espace. La société touarègue n'est pas en vase clos, elle côtoie de très près d'autres populations et d'autres cultures, elle s'adapte à son nouvel univers dans ses différentes composantes. Nous avons donc délimité un espace lieu représentatif de cette brusque évolution de cette société, à savoir l'espace périphérique qui entoure la ville de Tamanrasset où s'est sédentarisé un grand nombre de nomades Touaregs. C'es… Show more

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“…Susan Rasmussen and Faiza Seddik Arkam also note that the tendé is associated with spirit possession which is against Islam making it a taboo practice for Tuareg men to engage in, who often emphasize their Islamic adherence and association with marabouts as opposed to griots, as a means of maintaining social status in the community. For example, Rasmussen writes "the few men who resort to women's exorcism rites, and do the Koranic verses normal for men's spirit cures, are subject to ridicule" (Rasmussen, 1994 p. 76;Seddik Arkam 2014;Ciucci, 2012). Veronica Doubleday's extensive overview of the gendered relationships to instruments in the Middle East offers some additional telling insights.…”
Section: A Woman's Instrumentmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Susan Rasmussen and Faiza Seddik Arkam also note that the tendé is associated with spirit possession which is against Islam making it a taboo practice for Tuareg men to engage in, who often emphasize their Islamic adherence and association with marabouts as opposed to griots, as a means of maintaining social status in the community. For example, Rasmussen writes "the few men who resort to women's exorcism rites, and do the Koranic verses normal for men's spirit cures, are subject to ridicule" (Rasmussen, 1994 p. 76;Seddik Arkam 2014;Ciucci, 2012). Veronica Doubleday's extensive overview of the gendered relationships to instruments in the Middle East offers some additional telling insights.…”
Section: A Woman's Instrumentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The emotional lives of women for example, seemed to play out through tendé rituals or performances. Healing rituals, in which the tendé is the main accompanying instrument, are usually reserved for helping women work through marital or familial conflicts (Rasmussen, 1986;Seddik Arkam, 2014). Similarly, when women are possessed by the spirits of Kel essuf.…”
Section: Everyday World(s) Of the Tendémentioning
confidence: 99%