Essai / Dissertation =/ synonymes

Excellent!

Voici le défilé de moi.



C'est un défilé de vent à la plage. Je m'adore et le vent m'adore aussi. Voici le message de la vie tel que je l'ai inscrit!


Bon, alors j'ai eu beaucoup de difficulté ces derniers jours à me concentrer sur mes lectures. Peut-être que si j'écris ici les deux dernières pages de mon livre, je vais finalement réussir à les lire.

"The main features of a chisungu on the other hand are its crowds and its thronging dancers. Again the ancestral ceremonies are performed in a reverent and quiet way. Nothing could be in greater contrast than the spirit of the chisungu with its noisy dancing and singing, its extravagant burlesque and its crowded scenes. The chisungu proclaimes and teaches and requires a big concourse for its effect: it repeats, reaffirms and hands on by emblem and mime. The ancestral prayers are supplications to spirits who can give and withhold. The approach to them is difficult and can only e made by men in authority who have made themselves ritually pure. If Bemba believe in chiefs at all, they believe that they are worshipping chiefs acting as intermediaries for them, because that is their concept of kingship. They do not need to watch the rite of supplication itself.

I have tried to find explanations for an elaborate set of rites. They were ceremonies performed by people of a culture that was strange to me and in a language which I did not understand thoroughly enough for an adequate study of verbal symbols. The task has been one which no anthropologist could hope to achieve completely, but it extended my knowledge of Bemba institutions and values and set me, and I hope others, problems for comparative study in other matrilineal tribes. It has given me a conception of the great variety of different purposes which men seek to achieve by ritual behaviour. " - Audrey Richards, Chisungu p. 168.

Je devrais être capable de lire la dernière page, maintenant que j'ai pris mon élan. Et rappelez-vous, les amis, du vent qui est en vous!

Nico le pico venteux.