La Réunion : acculturation, créolisation et réinventions culturelles

Ghasarian, Christian

doi:10.3917/ethn.024.0663

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“…Frédérick Barth (1995) shows how the definition of and the differentiation between ethnic groups are constructed and reconstructed through the permanent interaction between groups. My approach supports the idea of an ‘inadequacy of the concepts of “communities” and “ethnic groups” in the Réunion context’ (Ghasarian, 2002: 674).…”

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“…Works on creolisation have guided my research, particularly those of Paul Ottino (1999), Jean Benoist (1998), Christian Ghasarian (2002) and Bernard Chérubini (1997), as well as those on Creole cuisine and its particular identity status in Réunion. Finally, I have studied whether or not food was part of the islanders’ relationship to their cultural roots, a crucial dimension in Réunion whose society originated from migration, including groups of slave descendants or European or Indian migrants – all this being related with the imaginative psyche of origins and memory.…”

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Food as a factor of collective identity: The case of creolisation

Tibère

2015

French Cultural Studies

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The process of creolisation is linked to the movements of globalisation that have occurred since the seventeenth century, disseminating material resources, people and their cultures. Populations were displaced and their social and cultural worlds coexisted, often intermingling. This gave rise to unique socio-anthropological patterns on the level of both tangible and intangible cultures and in ways of living together. In these processes, food still plays a major role as a foundation and expression of identity. Creolisation in food first refers to cultural intersections that occurred in these societies to provide what is known locally as Creole cuisine. More broadly, it refers to the identity processes crystallised in food, in multicultural Creole societies, reflecting their internal structures. In this article, I explore these issues in the context of the island of Réunion, where Creole cuisine provides the basis for a common culture beyond differences, and at the same time maintains a link with cultural origins.

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Food as a factor of collective identity: The case of creolisation

Tibère

2015

French Cultural Studies

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“…Each family has had to deal with their own particular heritage, their cultural representations and their system of kinship, and, in particular, the naming of people (how the name is written, attributed, transmitted and what its function is; Ibid , p.180). Ghasarian (2002) characterised the complexity of Réunion society by the presence of three driving forces: acculturation, creolisation and cultural re-invention.…”

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The Impact of Breakdown in Filiation: The Instance of Children Exiled From Reunion Island to Mainland France Between 1962 and 1984

Feldman

2021

Front. Psychol.

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The aim of this article was to show the consequences of breakdowns in filiation among people born between 1950 and 1970 on Reunion Island, who experienced particular traumas during their childhood. The research participants included 2,015 children exiled from Reunion Island to mainland France between 1962 and 1984 as part of a political project. Most of them we adopted, others were placed in foster families, foster homes, or farms. The forced exile was orchestrated by the French social services in charge of child protection (DDASS). Structured interviews were conducted for 13 people exiled when they were between 2 and 15years old. The interviews were transcribed and then analysed. The results show that these children were exposed to abuse in their filiation through a series of traumas. For them, this abuse is still active today as the French government has not yet acknowledged the suffering of these children. The participants displayed numerous psychic disorders linked to their abandonment. They are still experiencing difficulties in assuming their identity, and these difficulties are transmitted to the next generation. Analysis of the impact of these filiation breakdowns leads the present researchers to suggest a specific clinical setting, based on a focus group, in other words a group therapy aiming to generate a group narrative process.

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“…In this sense, the reality of the inhabitants of Réunion accords with that of members of every culture that has been marked, at some moment in its history, by a relation of violent domination. To try to provide a holistic perspective on the question of the "sense of identity", we could cite Ghasarian (2002), who highlights the constant reformulations (which move from attempts to establish cultural syncretisms to claims about the purity of the culture of origin) at work in Réunion society:…”

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The Suitability of a Transcultural Clinical Approach to Psychosomatic Disturbances in Reunion Island

Rassaby-Darsanesing

Bioy

Lavaud

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Psic.: Teor. e Pesq.

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Cultural foundations, beliefs and associated ritual practices delimit the relation to and the representation and lived experience of the body in specific ways. Language is the means through which the cultural specificity of both individual and shared mental content can be explored and worked with in therapy. This article presents beliefs about the body in a patient’s religion of origin and takes up the question of the role of the cultural dimension in psychosomatic phenomena. A case report gives indications of a novel therapeutic approach to this theme and highlights the intrinsic connection between cultural belonging and embodiment. Both the two-year long clinical intervention and analysis are grounded in transcultural and psychodynamic theories. The analysis shows how important it is to be aware of the patients’ cultural background and the resonance of history in the patients’ civilization.

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La Réunion : acculturation, créolisation et réinventions culturelles

Cited by 37 publications

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Food as a factor of collective identity: The case of creolisation

Food as a factor of collective identity: The case of creolisation

The Impact of Breakdown in Filiation: The Instance of Children Exiled From Reunion Island to Mainland France Between 1962 and 1984

The Suitability of a Transcultural Clinical Approach to Psychosomatic Disturbances in Reunion Island

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