December 9, 2013
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Olivier Nguema Akwe, « For an anarchist anthropology of the body in sport witchcraft techniques : Mesing amoung the Fang of Gabon », Theses.fr, ID : 10670/1.u32ui2
This thesis focuses on a diachronic analysis of the relationship between anarchism, the techniques of body witchcraft in the practice of the Mesing and martial arts in Gabon. This study focuses exclusively on the fang ethno linguistic group of Gabon. The aim of this work is to demonstrate the link between his fields of study.Indeed, what combat sports reports and witchcraft of the Fang of Gabon could they keep with a political project born in Europe, in the wake of the enlightenment and the moment where this same Europe preparing,on behalf of the lights just (progress and reason), to impose on the whole of Africa the morgue and the mercantile baseness of his domination. Anarchism emerged in the 19th century in Europe. And there is better, over time, what, from his place, his time and his nature, he was across all the human experiments, a radical alternative to the world where he was born, the affirmation and the hope of an otherness, both indoor andoutdoor, in the corridors of Europe and the Americas as in the intensity of resistance to imperialism and domination of colonial enterprises. This work strives to show how the Fang of Gabon and elsewhere, along with many others and multiple way, mobilized all their knowledge magic and warriors in anarchic form to resist colonial rule.