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Title Resume Keywords Duration
 Daily life: Housing - 1  The G'Baya live in huts directed towards the center of the village. The huts belong to the women, thus the men are hosted at their different wife's houses. Men have to divide their lives in case they have several wifes, that is why polygamy is not that much of a common practice.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Daily life
 00:00:46
 Beliefs and rituals: Fecundity  The G'Baya approach to fecundity seems to be meaningfull regarding marriage, parenthood and sexuality.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Beliefs and rituals
 00:02:31
 Social organization : Marriage -1  This excerpt presents the uses and habits regarding marriage as well as separation in the G'Baya society.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Social organization
 00:00:10
 Social organization : Marriage -1*  This excerpt presents the uses and habits regarding marriage as well as separation in the G'Baya society.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Social organisation
 00:00:42
 Beliefs and rituals: Fecundity through the ancestors and hunting.  Fecundity is closely linked to hunting and its givings to the ancestors. These rituals show how much symbolic lies into these acts.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Beliefs and rituals
 00:01:37
 Social organization: Marriage-2  Explanation of the process leading to the engagement and the right choice of the suitor.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Social organisation
 00:01:49
 Beliefs and rituals: Tales - 1  This excerpt presents us the particular form of the G'Baya Tales. The case featured here gives us more informations about how engagement and marriage are moralized.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Beliefs and rituals
 00:02:45
 Beliefs and rituals: Tales - 2  Again, this tale addresses the theme of marriage and the way people make up their mind to choose a partner.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Beliefs and rituals
 00:00:59
 Daily life: Housing - 2  The other aspect of housing is that the men have to build the hut for the couple, which will belong to the women. When the building of a hut is finished, the women of the village come and visit the new owner for a ceremony ressembling a "housewarning". They bring fruits and pottery to bring hapiness and wealth.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Daily life
[ L’environnement du monde de vie ] Daily life
 00:01:06
 Social organisation : Naming and idendity  This passage makes us realize the "lottery" process undergoing the choice of names.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Social organization
 00:01:18
 Social organization: The cunning child  This portion of the video shows to our occidental minds another way of approaching the relationships to children.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Social organization
 00:00:44
 Beliefs and rituals : rites of passage  This short exerpt let us know about a peculiar rite that the little boys had to go through during their childhood.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Beliefs and rituals
 00:00:37
 Beliefs and rituals: Tales - 3  P. Roulon - Doko addesses here the general form of the tale, precisely how it deals with the world of childhood through the language of the story-teller and the recurring image of the cunning child.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Beliefs and rituals
 00:02:25
 General linguistic: construction of grammatical forms  This excerpt presents how the language is constructed, including exemples of variours grammatical forms such as the two different forms for names. We also learn that the perception of time is conveyed though verbal "aspects and modes", excluding the traditionnal verbal tenses we use.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Language
 00:05:35
 Evolution through Modern Times: the concept of Time  The G'Baya don't follow the traditionnal European concept of the Timeline. They still follow the lunar cycles and think History as a series of cycles. The perception of time follows a certain elasticity, based on natural cycles.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Evolution through modernity
 00:01:08
 Beliefs and rituals : the Ancestors  This passage gives us an insight of the respect due to the ancestors. According to the Gbaya, their ancestors live along with them (especially dealing with sickness and judgment).   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Beliefs and rituals
 00:01:51
 General linguistic: Semantic fields  Ms Roulon Doko explains how the different lexical fields are related. The vocabulary is developped from a single general concept to be expended to practical ones. Starting with one single word, they obtain up to seven different verbs.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Language
 00:05:54
 General linguistic: construction of grammatical forms - 2  Here, we discover the various forms constituting the grammar. The mains forms include the noun phrase, verbal forms as well as the role of adjectives. Ms Roulon Doko also explains the importance of the tone, which can be determinating for the meaning. The B'Gbaya language shows a specificity: the phrasing can involve two different relations: the possessive relation and the specific relation.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Language
 00:06:03
 Beliefs and rituals: sorcery and judgement  Here we can get an account of how the process leading to the accusation of sorcery, the trial and the judgment of the community occurs.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Beliefs and rituals
 00:09:22
 Evolution through Modern Times: new behaviours with money  Young boys used to offer iron bars as a dower for marriages. Nowadays, the new generation have new behaviours towards money and feel the need to have cash assets, thus they need to work more to provide what was before provided by the family inheritance.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Evolution through modernity
 00:00:59
 Beliefs and rituals : Rites of passage - 2  The rites of passage to the adulthood in the Gbaya ethny have been progressively left out then forbidden. It was fairly accepted by the population given the pain caused by the tatooing and the female circumcision.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Evolution through modernity
 00:02:29
 Evolution through Modern Times: Relationships with the Christendom  Since the arrival ofEuropeans in Africa, the G'Baya have been in contact with new forms of religion, in particular with Protestants and Catholics. None of them ever really managed to convert them. The Protestants played with their credulity, while the Catholics tried to impose the belief in one single creative God. But neither the Catholics nor the Protestants have been able to compete with the power of the ancestors.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Evolution through modernity
 00:02:17
 Social organization: The due respect to the patriarch  The relation to the elder in the G'Baya ethny seems to have a special importance in the social life and behavior.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Social organization
 00:01:00
 Social organization : Caring of the child.  This extract underlines how the child is being protected whenever seperation or death of the parents occurs.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Social organization
 00:00:43
 General linguistic: the use of the corteous form  Paradoxically, the use of the courteous form (the equivalant of the "vous" form in French) is applied to the family circle, and not when addressing to a stranger. This traduces the respect due to the status in the hierarchy.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Language
 00:01:17
 Evolution through Modern Times : perpectives for the future  The Gbaya society remains traditional but it has to find a place of its own in the modern society. Nevertheless they encounter some difficulties to match their traditonal culture with the requirements inherent to the organization of a modern society. One of the main goal is to provide proper education for the children.   [ La temporalité du monde de vie ] Evolution through modernity
 00:01:16





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