{"id":22349,"date":"2010-12-12T12:29:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T11:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/?p=22349"},"modified":"2011-12-08T15:40:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T14:40:22","slug":"society-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/2010\/12\/society-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Society issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49089\" title=\"societe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/societe1.jpg\" alt=\"societe\" width=\"236\" height=\"156\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Environment and livelihood<\/h5>\n<p><strong>The Chinese at Lake Oguemoue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the midst of our field sessions our crew sometimes unexpectedly captures unusual encounters, uncommon scenes and \u201cslices of life\u201d. This video is one of those improvised moments: Th\u00e9odosie, member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/akele\">Akele<\/a> community near Lambarene (Gabon), watches a huge tugboat full of wood sliding by on the lake. And she starts on the presence of the Chinese in the area\u2026<\/p>\n<p>More info <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/the-chinese-at-lake-oguemoue\">here<\/a><br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/V32VNK2QBd8&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/V32VNK2QBd8&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Linguist<\/span>: Jean-Marie Hombert<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Camera and sound<\/span>:  Luc-Henri Fage<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Translation<\/span>: Hugues Awanhet<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Editing<\/span> : Caroline Laurent<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Threats upon the turtles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More info <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/threats-upon-the-turtles\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SHW4YO0MP7A?fs=1&amp;hl=fr_FR\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SHW4YO0MP7A?fs=1&amp;hl=fr_FR\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><strong>Sand dollars<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong>More info <a href=\" https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/sand-dollars\">here<\/a><br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cJV82IpmU-0?fs=1&amp;hl=fr_FR\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cJV82IpmU-0?fs=1&amp;hl=fr_FR\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><strong>Crab fishing in the mangrove<\/strong><br \/>\nMore info <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/crab-fishing-in-the-mangrove\">here<\/a><br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9SYwvIl29nI?fs=1&amp;hl=fr_FR\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9SYwvIl29nI?fs=1&amp;hl=fr_FR\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Linguist<\/span>: Patrick Mouguiama-Daouda<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Image &amp; sound<\/span>: Muriel Lutz<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Editing<\/span>: Caroline Laurent<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><strong>Surviving in the mountain, with Marcel At\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Marcel At\u00e9<\/strong> recounts life as it used to be, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/xaracuu\"><strong>X\u00e2r\u00e2c\u00f9\u00f9<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>language of New Caledonia: a life of hard work based on the harvest of coffee, citrus fruit, and taro, products that needed to be carried across the mountains on foot. Then came the pesticides, and what\u2019s more, the fire ant, a strongly urticating kind of ant that made harvest by hand impossible. Consequence of such curses, livelihood grew scarce&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AM_EzTtg7hY?version=3&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AM_EzTtg7hY?version=3&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Linguist<\/span>: Claire Moyse-Faurie (LACITO\/CNRS)<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Image &amp; sound<\/span>: Jos\u00e9 Reynes, assisted by Karl Jor\u00e9di\u00e9<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Translation<\/span>: Annick Kasovimoin (Acad\u00e9mie des Langues Kanak &#8211; ALK)<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Editing<\/span>: Caroline Laurent<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h5><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Mariage and its side issues<\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To start off the summer, Sorosoro kicks off a whole new series of videos filmed a year ago in the Gabonese Akele community, devoted to the theme of <strong>marriage&#8230; and its possible side issues<\/strong>: footage raising questions as diverse as the choice of partners, proposal procedures, cost of dowry, rules regarding polygamy, adultery or widowhood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These interviews may bear a few surprises, at least for the most Western-framed. But basically what we\u2019ll see is that there\u2019s a <strong>politico-economic aspect<\/strong> to marriage in the Akele community, as in most African communities: marriages structure society, and involve property transfer. Which incidentally reminds that marriages arranged in the same perspectives in remote parts of Western Europe do not necessarily belong to a very distant past\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Equally perceptible in the interviews, the <strong>young generations<\/strong>, as always, tend to wish for different lifestyles than their parents and grandparents. Africa is also undergoing the big tradition shake-up\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><strong>Akele marriage, by Jean k\u00e9dine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first of this series on marriage shines the light on the different<strong> changes <\/strong>in <strong>matrimonial customs <\/strong>of the <strong>contemporary <\/strong>Akele community, especially in regards to the choice of a partner\u2026<\/p>\n<p>More info <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/akele-marriage-by-jean-kedine\">here<\/a><br \/>\n<object width=\"610\" height=\"370\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GZdSNihzTNw?version=3&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GZdSNihzTNw?version=3&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><strong>The \u00ab proposal \u00bb, by Th\u00e9odosie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Th\u00e9odosie tells us here about a key step in the ritual of matrimonial union in her community:<strong> the traditional kidnapping of the future spouse<\/strong> by the husband\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>More info <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/the-proposal-by-theodosie\">here<\/a><br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/I9CSyuc7ifE&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/I9CSyuc7ifE&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><strong>The dowry, by Anaaket &amp; Jean K\u00e9dine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our summer series on marriage continues with a new episode focusing on a key institution in several traditional societies : the bride&#8217;s dowry.<\/p>\n<p>More info <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/the-dowry-by-anakeet-and-jean-kedine\">here<\/a><br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4xza728OK0s&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4xza728OK0s&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><strong>The dowry, by Papa K\u00e9dine<\/strong><br \/>\nAnother account on<strong> dowry<\/strong>, under quite a different light&#8230;<br \/>\nMore info <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/the-dowry-by-papa-kedine\">here<\/a><br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XxCoiEGB9DU&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XxCoiEGB9DU&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><strong>Polygamy, by Jean K\u00e9dine<\/strong><br \/>\nAnother side of Akele marriage, with this new video on the question of polygamy.<br \/>\nMore info <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/polygamy-by-jean-kedine\">here<\/a><br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/F2pBIbqWmqQ&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/F2pBIbqWmqQ&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><strong>Adultery, by Jean k\u00e9dine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sorosoro continues its exploration into the marital relationships of Gabon. The following video covers a practically universal topic, which definitely does not lack in excitement\u2026<\/p>\n<p>More info <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/adultery-by-jean-kedine\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XUbt6G2Dzqs&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XUbt6G2Dzqs&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Birth and rites of passage, with Papa K\u00e9dine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the marriage proposal, the dowry, polygamy and adultery, another pivotal moment in life: childbirth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More info <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/birth-and-rites-of-passage-with-papa-kedine\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OZbvMzS-nYs&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OZbvMzS-nYs&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><strong>Circumcision, with Jean K\u00e9dine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moving on in our exploration of the rites related to\u00a0circumcision: following Papa K\u00e9dine last week, his grandson Jean brings us details on the ceremony and the actual operation as they used to be conducted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More info <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/circumcision-with-jean-kedine\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RQPCNuy40bM&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RQPCNuy40bM&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><strong>Widowhood<\/strong><br \/>\nThe time has come to bring our series on marriage to a close, with this last video, obviously, on death and widowhood.<br \/>\nMore info <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/the-fate-of-widows\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zpqdv7DU0yM&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zpqdv7DU0yM&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Linguist<\/span>: Jean-Marie Hombert<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Camera and sound<\/span>:  Luc-Henri Fage<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Translation<\/span>: Hugues Awanhet<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Editing<\/span> : Caroline Laurent<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environment and livelihood The Chinese at Lake Oguemoue In the midst of our field sessions our crew sometimes unexpectedly captures unusual encounters, uncommon scenes and \u201cslices of life\u201d. 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