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Archives ouvertes du IIAC UMR8177, responsable Eliane Daphy. ; International audience ; Modern political communication is often assumed to be incompatible with the various features of ritual in traditional societies. This paper shows that traditional practices are too deeply embedded in our conception of public life to be rendered obsolete by the emergence of new channels of political communication. Far from being antinomic, ritual work and the use of media bring about new formats where traditional referents and modern procedures combine with each other. An investigation of local politics in a French "département" (county)l'Yonne, a study of the symbolic dimensions involved in the behaviour of national leaders such as President Mitterand, and, finally, an anthropologically oriented analysis of current rituals of consensus and conflict suggest the following conclusions. Media treatment deeply transforms both the form and content of rituals of conflict. On the other hand it gives a new resilience to consensual rituals whose features it mainly extends or amplifies. Finally, it fosters the emergence of altogether new rites merging communicative strategies with traditional features and religious themes. ; On a tendance à voir une sorte de hiatus entre la communication politique moderne et les différents aspects du rituel qui ont jusqu'ici prévalu dans les sociétés traditionnelles. Cet article montre que l'apparition de ces nouvelles formes de communication politique n'implique pas mécaniquement la disparition de pratique liées à toute une conception de la vie publique ; loin qu'il y ait réellement antinomie entre le travail rituel et l'utilisation des médias, ceux-ci favorisent l'émergence de nouvelles formes qui combinent les referents anciens et les procédures modernes. La recherche présentée ici résulte d'une enquête sur la vie politique locale dans un département français (l'Yonne) et sur les pratiques symboliques d'hommes politiques d'envergure nationale, tel le président Mitterrand. L'auteur analyse d'un point ...

Date fictive, en attente de renseignements ; La présentation d'un ensemble de travaux qui ont jalonné une quinzaine d'années de recherches est aussi l'occasion de jeter un regard rétrospectif sur son propre parcours. L'entreprise peut paraître risquée, car la tentation est grande de reconstruire a posteriori une homogénéité fictive, l'illusion d'un projet mûri de longue date et qui trouverait son accomplissement dans les productions successives de l'auteur. La réalité est généralement plus prosaïque: les ethnologues savent à quel point les contingences du terrain retentissent sur le choix des thèmes qu'ils privilégient. Mon propre itinéraire est ainsi jalonné par des expériences très différentes. J'ai en effet travaillé dans deux types de sociétés très contrastés, en Afrique et en Europe. Quand j'ai commencé ma recherche sur les Ochollo d'Ethiopie méridionale, je n'imaginais pas que dix ans plus tard j'étudierais la vie politique locale dans un département français. Il ne me serait pas non plus venu à l'esprit que j'aurais un jour l'occasion de faire partie d'une confrérie religieuse dans un pueblo d'Andalousie et de me pencher sur les transformations du paysage dans la périphérie de Séville.

The development of an anthropological approach to political facts in the European area is a récent element. The author describes the obstacles which hindered this development. He then examines the concept of political space, the abject of that anthropology. This concept must be understood in its two-fold meaning : the space of political representation, a pattern of networks where one moves constantly beyond the limits defined by local communities and the space of political action in which the reference to territoriality, to the hierarchical opposition of center and periphery, rules the practices and the discourse of the elected. The gap between these two spaces is at the heart of the political anthropology of modern societies.

Politics at Naught

What one first observes about political activities in a canton in the Morvan mountains (Burgundy, France) is the prevailing "apoliticization", but a closer examination shows the complexity of a longstanding pattern of antagonistic ideological positions, which can still be seen. The history, nature and scope of political networks are discussed. Although the commune is positively valued in autochtonous views, the ramifications of these networks reach out over the whole canton. The analysis of the political setting takes into account the relations between local authorities and the State's territorial representatives. The study of changes in this relationship reveals the origins of this apoliticization, and it can be used to specify the conditions for the development of cooperation among communes within the canton. Will such cooperation eventually reshape political networks ?

La date n'est pas exacte, en attente de renseignements. Archives ouvertes du IIAC, ss la responsabilité d'E.Daphy http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/AO-IIAC ; This study is a contribution about populations localised in Gamo Monts, Ethiopy. ; Cette étude constitue une contribution aux recherches sur les populations localisées dans les Monts Gamo, au sud-ouest de l'Ethiopie, dans la province du Gemu Gofa. Ces populations font partie du groupe linguistique Ometo.

La date n'est pas exacte, en attente de renseignements. Archives ouvertes du IIAC, ss la responsabilité d'E.Daphy http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/AO-IIAC ; This study is a contribution about populations localised in Gamo Monts, Ethiopy. ; Cette étude constitue une contribution aux recherches sur les populations localisées dans les Monts Gamo, au sud-ouest de l'Ethiopie, dans la province du Gemu Gofa. Ces populations font partie du groupe linguistique Ometo.

Moving from the study of the political in traditional societies to the observation of French politics allows ethnology to plot some of the aspects of modern reality overlooked by other sciences. The identity and territory of the elected representative or of the elector make up the specific space and scale which its outsider's eye is attracted to. Thus Marc Abélès analyses the connection between ethnology and political science.

The French scholar Marc Abélès is one of the leading political and philosophical anthropologists of our time. He is perhaps the leading anthropologist writing on the state and globalization. Thinking beyond the State, a distillation of his work to date, is a superb introduction to his contributions to both anthropology and political philosophy. Abélès observes that while interdependence and interconnection have become characteristic features of our globalized era, there is no indication that a concomitant evolution in thinking about political systems has occurred. The state remains the shield--for both the Right and the Left--against the turbulent effects of globalization. According to Abélès, we live in a geopolitical universe that, in many respects, reproduces alienating logics. His book, therefore, is a primer on how to see beyond the state. It is also a testament to anthropology's centrality and importance in any analysis of the global human predicament. Thinking beyond the State will find wide application in anthropology, political science and philosophy courses dealing with the state and globalization