« Je ne veux pas mourir ici ». Perception de la mort chez les femmes accusées de sorcellerie vivant dans les centres d’accueil au Burkina Faso
In Burkina Faso, several collective shelters have taken in people accused of witchcraft following their exclusion from the community. In these centers, they receive comprehensive care, including funeral services. Based on recent ethnographic surveys and personal research archives, this article explo...
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| 言語: | Français |
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2025
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| オンライン･アクセス: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 要約: | In Burkina Faso, several collective shelters have taken in people accused of witchcraft following their exclusion from the community. In these centers, they receive comprehensive care, including funeral services. Based on recent ethnographic surveys and personal research archives, this article explores the perception of death among women living in these centers. Death is a structuring aspect of the collective and individual experience of being accused of witchcraft before entering the center. Once inside, their living conditions take the form of a social death, and they acquire a new social status: that of the unwanted and the ungrievable. Death in the center is the most feared, because it is the most unworthy of human finitude. Dying at the center is tantamount to losing one's individuality, one's ancestrality, through a public burial that divests the family of its traditional role of managing the mortal remains. This article makes an important contribution to an anthropology of moral economies, linked to a biopolitics of the ungrievable. |
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