Dis-placing Bosavi

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titleDis-placing Bosavi
start_date2008/05/15
schedule11h-13h
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location_infosalle 7
detailsDans le cadre du séminaire d'anthropologie linguistique de Francis Zimmermann
summaryThis lecture focuses on dis-placement, the shift from traditional Bosavi meanings associated with place and emplacement to introduced Christian ideas of national and transnational religious communities. It examines the discursive practices and tropes that emphasized various types of division, Christian/nonChristian, center/periphery, inside/outside, among other rhetorical devices introduced by missionaries and taken up by local Christians. These ways of speaking and thinking not only demonized the land and “things of the earth” but also promoted a Christian fundamentalist orientation away from local cultures and cultural practices in favor of Christian worlds, including the Kingdom of God.
responsiblesZimmermann, de Fornel