Les fang et les bubi devant la mort. Rituels funeraires de deux ethnies de la guinee equatoriale
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Abstract EN:
The thesis is intitled the fang and the bubi in front of death. Funeral rituals of two ethnics groups of equatorial guinea. The aim is to prove that the fang and the bubi have the same representations, meaning and profound value of dath. Death is basically considered by these two ethnic groups as a qualitative metamorphosis of the person. The metamorphosis implies an ontological and social promotion : it's the transition from an inferior human status to a super ior one. The ritual makes this symbolic and spiritual tansformation possible and efficient it's an eminently social act which is put into practice by the studied groups to mark the steps of the dynamic processes that every human being knows during his existence. Ritual is profitable to the whole society who asks for new members and for positive energies always renewed for their complete blossoming and the one of the entire society.
Abstract FR:
La these les fang et les bubi devant la mort. Rituels funeraires de deux ethnies de la guinee equatoriale se propose de demontrer que les representations, la signification et la valeur profonde que les ethnies fang et bubi se donnent de la mort sont similaires. La mort est envisagee essentiellement par ces deux ethnies comme une metamorphose qualitative de la personne, laquelle implique sa promotion ontologique et sociale : c'est le passage d'un statut humain inferieur a un autre superieur. Ce qui rend possible, efficient et efficace cette transformation symbolique et spirituelle, c'est le rite, un acte eminemment social qui est constamment mis en exercice que vit tout homme au cours de son existence; il profite a la societe entiere qui reclame de nouveaux membres et des energies positives toujours renouvelees pour leur plein epanouissement et celui de l'univers tout entier.