Actualités de la personne en Mélanésie

Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie 124 (1):83 (2008)
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Les anthropologues qui étudient les effets de la « modernité » en Mélanésie ont donné un souffle nouveau à la question de la personne relationnelle. On observe l’apparition de personnes plus individualisées, plus autonomes dans le contexte de la conversion au christianisme, de la consommation de biens et du travail salarié. Comportements sexuels et sensibilités des jeunes se transforment à la faveur de leur expérience d’idées nouvelles sur les rapports amoureux et de formes inédites d’érotisme, bien que toujours soumis à de fortes contraintes structurelles. Savoir comment les autres expérimentent le monde est une vaste question examinée à partir de deux sources : les récits des jeunes sur eux-mêmes, et des histoires d’esprits, qui gagnent en autonomie mais conservent leur appartenance à des communautés façonnées par les réseaux de parenté et d’échange.Anthropologists concerned with the effects of « modernity » in Melanesia have injected new life into the topic of relational personhood. More individualized, self-owning persons are said to be emerging in the context of conversion to Christianity, commodity consumption, and wage labor. The sexual behaviors and sensibilities of young people change as they experiment with new ideas about romance and forms of sexual pleasure, albeit under considerable structural constraints. The broader problem of knowing how others experience the world is evaluated by examining two sources : the self-reports of young people, and stories about spirit beings, who become more self-owning but also retain membership in communities fashioned by the webs of kinship and exchange

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