Dieu dans tous ses états

Mutation socioreligieuse en Afrique centrale

Martin Kalulambi Pongo
Université d’Ottawa

« Dieu dans tous ses états » analyse le phénomène de suractivité religieuse observée en Afrique centrale et interroge les procédures mises en œuvre par ses producteurs et ses consommateurs. L’analyse s’inscrit dans la longue durée et saisit les diverses mutations, depuis les premières « formes hérétiques » du XVIe siècle jusqu’à la vernacularisation actuelle de la foi en passant par les messianismes noirs, les traditionalismes, l’inculturation et l’indigénisation du message chrétien et islamique.

Aujourd’hui, le rapport des acteurs à la religion et à l’univers du croyable a bien peu à voir avec l’attitude qu’avaient les générations précédentes. La question de Dieu ne se pose pas ; celle de l’insertion dans une appartenance religieuse, de la quête du bonheur et du salut est pendante. La foi s’infléchit dans un héritage chrétien ou islamique, s’inspire des traditions locales, et fonctionne sous l’autorité des ministres omnipuissants. Entreprise jamais terminée, la quête de sens va au-delà des formules de jadis perçues comme dépassées et visibilise l’acte de croire qui séduit les foules. Occupation compétitive régulière et visible de l’espace public physique, percée médiatique, émergence du rapport individuel à la croyance, développement du marché spirituel et colonisation du champ musical, sont autant de thèmes minutieusement analysés.

ISBN 9783862883035. LINCOM Cultural Studies 11. 146pp. 2012.

Roma Identity and Antigypsyism in Europe

Hristo Kyuchukov & Omar Rawashdeh (eds.)
Free University of Berlin, Roma Center for Intercultural Dialog, Berlin

The book “Roma identity and Antigypsyism in Europe” is a collection of selected articles, presented at Khamoro World Festival in Prague, during the 2010 and 2012 editions of the Festival. Leading experts in the field of Roma issues discuss the problems of Roma identity and the forms of antigypsyism in modern 21 c. Europe. Specialists in the field of linguistics, sociology, ethnology, anthropology, history and education present their research findings and scientific observations. The book will be an interesting Reader for students in the field of “Romani studies”, as well as to everyone interested in the Roma issue.

PART ONE: ROMA IDENTITY

The contemporary situation of Roma and problems with their identity
Ian Hancock

Projection Hypotheses in language and identity among Muslim Roma
Hristo Kyuchukov

Roma identities in Central, South-eastern and Eastern Europe
Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov

Contemporary changes in Roma identity in the Czech and Slovak Republic
Eva Davidová

“Yaşasin Romanlar!” Emerging Romani organisations and idetities in the Republic of Turkey, 2000-2010
Adrian Marsh

The role of healthy Roma self-confidence in the integration process
Jana Horvathova

Memory, history and Rromanipen: reflection on the concept of trace
Sarah Carmona

Sampanis vs. Greece: discrimination, disrespect and Roma identity on the EU frontier
William New

Roma identity and great Roma personalities
Jaroslav Balvin

PART TWO: ANTIGYPSYISM IN EUROPE

History of Antigypsyism in Europe: the social causes
Markus End

Antigypsyism in Czechoslovakia during the communist era (1950 – 1989)
Eva Davidová

Social and economic bases of antigypsyism
Thomas Acton

New trends of antiziganism in Central And Southeastern Europe
Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov

Antigypsyism and University education
Hristo Kyuchukov and Jaroslav Balvin

ISBN 9783862884148. LINCOM Cultural Studies 12. 206pp. 2013.

External Traders in the Hinterland of Sofala 1810 – 1889

Kholisile David Dhliwayo
The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

The organization and significance of external trade in eastern Shona territory consisting of Kisanga, Kiteve and Madanga states is examined from 1810-1899 in relation to the socio-economic and political structures of the eastern Shona and Nguni migrants. The thesis seeks to investigate how the African states regulated trade with the Portuguese based at Sofala and how the latter made efforts to remove what they considered as African restrictions to the flow of trade.

From 1830 to 1839 the eastern Shona territory became a centre of conflict between Nguni groups, the final victors were the Gaza Nguni who succeeded in establishing a state in former Kisanga between 1840 and 1889. As a result the Gaza extended their hostility to the Sofala. Meanwhile the shift in power relations affected the pattern of trade without significantly changing the principles governing the distribution infrastructure. This was the case because the Gaza as well as eastern Shona accepted though grudgingly the Sofalans as the regulating authority on the coast.

Due to increasing Sofalan pressure, the Gaza eventually removed to the lower Limpopo area, leaving the eastern Shona to continue with regular trade with the Sofalans, who by then exercised effective power in the territory.

ISBN 9783862884582. LINCOM Cultural Studies 13. 123pp. 2014.

THE ROMA WOMAN – DIMENSIONS AND MARGINS IN HER LIFE

Evgeniya I. Ivanova & Velcho Krustev
Ethnographic Museum, Stara Zagora, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

In their monograph “The Roma Woman – Dimensions and Margins in her life” the authors present both the life of the Roma woman as well as the Roma ethnicity in a new light. They show how the pulse of everyday Roma life has been and is still racing under the hood of a seemingly uniform surface. Life with all its worries, happiness, burdens and human dramas.
The book presents the physical, juridical and social space which the woman has taken in this society from a historical point of view. The roads, the streets, the markets, the fields – all of these places know her steps. The Roma woman fulfills herself within the community through her family. Yet, in the context of the male domination and patriarchal order her position is subordinate and to a great extent without rights. Still the everyday decisions are her responsibility. And all of this within the limits of the Roma traditions and stereotypes.

ISBN 9783862884667. LINCOM Cultural Studies 14. 328pp. 2013.

ISBN 9783969390535. LINCOM Cultural Studies 21.   114pp. 2021.