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Around the Amerindian pot : elements of a technological dependence.
This article draws an analysis of material acculturation as we can witness today in the Amerindians' hut/kitchen in Camopi (French Guiana). It sets out to demonstrate how ongoing changes, far from limiting itself to a fundamentally superficial level, can have an effect on the essential dimensions of a way of being and thinking. In the long run, it would contribute to the reflection on matters relating to anthropology, that current technological progress, that has arisen in our societies and has spread to others, is the cause of.

Sketch of an anthroponomy from the status of immigrant to that of native
Exile and the colonial situation are the two contexts considered in the following text, in order to evaluate the radically uncertain nature of the proper name. Nevertheless it should play the role of a kind of permanence of the individual. Both question, in a more or less violent way, an identity which depends on a language and which is strongly connected with relations to others on the most latent level.

Exile and emigration in kabyle society : between fatality, tradition and modernity
There is a pervading speech today, tending to put the blame on North African immigration for the present difficulties in France. Without going into details, let us underline that the problem which the land of welcome has to cope with, also has repercussions and consequences for the immigrant society. Starting from the Kabyle example, we can disclose the hidden face of an emigration, accepted without despair and sometimes with humour. This exile can be said to be "culturized" by men and women who are inspired by a civilisation of the "word". This justifies the fact that oral literature is given a great importance in this article.

Der auslander in der europäischen debatte : beitrag einer einwander-bürgerin
Ausgehend vom französischen Beispiel, versucht dieser Artikel das Gewicht der Bevölkerungswanderung in der europâi-schen Débatte zu ermessen. Drei Punkte werden hervorgehoben : 1) die historische Verbindung, durch die die Wanderung als logische Folge der Kolonialherrschaft anzusehen ist ; 2) die Entwicklung, die die Frauen durch ihre Beteiligung in die Einwanderung gebracht haben ; 3) die Alternative, vor der Europa bald stehen könnte : entweder berücksichtigt es bei seinem Aufbau klar die historische Lage und bekennt sich zu einer noch nie dagewese-nen Begegnung der Völker mit allen ihren Konsequenzen ; oder es zieht sich in die Defensive zurück, wodurch es zweifels-ohne dazu verdammt ware, eine verderben-bringende Geschichte zu wiederholen. Dabei säßen aile im selben Boot.

Acculturation brought into question.

An analytical approach through the drawings of Amerindian children (French Guiana)
Acculturation in a large number of present-day traditional societies is inseperable from an inter-cultural communication relationship mediatized by individuals. It is at least what Amerindian children teach us through their drawings. In this way some obvious factors are demolished : for example that the phenomenon is the result of a confrontation between dominant societies and dominated ones at the same time as they confirm the ethnological illusion forcing the other cultural reality into the category of a subject for study involving the setting aside of an essential part of the phenomenon. If there is a problem of acculturation, it involves first of all the model from the other culture. So the whole perspective should be changed with regard to ethnology in particular.

Camopi Amerindians : from alcohol to the museum. The itinerary of acculturation.
This article attempts to show that the consumption of alcohol among Camopi Amerindians is really a social psychopathology which is linked with an acculturation process already in progress in the minds of the individuals, even if amerindian forms of culture seem to remain intact. then it is a sort of underhand acculturation whose logic is, in the end, understood through the project to create a museum which will reserve an extensive area for Amerindian cultures.

Cet article tente de reposer le problème de l'"acculturation'' par le biais psychopathologie qui, de l'avis de nombreux cliniciens, lui est spécifique et qu'on dans la nosographie psychiatrique sous le nom de "bouffée délirante". A partir d'une se rapportant à la société kabyle actuelle, nous montrons que cette psychopathotogie ne rien à une hypothétique "ambivalence culturelle" et que son mécanisme essentiel se lit travers la dynamique psychique qui sous-tend l'"acculturation" et qui attribue à la traditionnelle le statut d'un refoulé, au sens psychanalytique du terme.

L'hypothèse de l'existence d'une psychopathologie universelle implique-t-elle l'existence de la même "psychose" dans toutes les cultures ?
Cet article tente de répondre à cette question en suivant trois étapes :
1) Replacer la "psychose" dans le contexte socio-culturel où elle est née comme concept .
2) Identifier la "psychose" dans un contexte socio-culturel différent, la société traditionnelle kabyle.
3) Préciser les limites d'une psychiatrie profondément entravée dans l'exercice-même de sa fonction de connaissance.

The hysterical person and the djin in love.
Possession by the djin is a phenomenon found in certain forms of belief which falls both within the province of medicine and culture. Though it may express a hysterical psychopathology as in the case analysed here, it does not mean it is only that. Besides, as in any psychopathology, possession by the djin supposes a therapy which is already part of therapeutic practices said to be "traditional" or "primitive". Are they efficient or inefficient ? For C. Levi-Strauss, they have "a symbolic efficiency" ; for G. Devereux, they lack "insight", which compromises their efficiency. In reality, perhaps this is not the question. The important point is less to prove their efficiency or inefficiency than to understand the theoretical implications in which they engage the researcher. Only a few elements are given here, in order to show that these practices are inseparable from their cultural context and that, before deciding their efficiency, it is necessary to understand some aspects of this culture and above all, to identify, to clarify and to recognize what the unconscious is here. For, in the end, it is thus that psychoanalytic anthropology can be something other than applied psychoanalysis freed from a limiting ethnocentrism and an illusory evolutionism.