Thesis (MFA)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2009. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Dennis Aig. Never Wash Away is DVD accompanying the thesis. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 50-53).

Cette thèse a pour objet l'étude de la lexicographie du lâri, qui est la troisième langue véhiculaire de la République du Congo, afin de proposer la création d'un dictionnaire bilingue lâri-français. Le premier chapitre permet de comprendre l'histoire du groupe ethnique Balâri et la situation géographique et démographique de la langue aujourd'hui. Le second chapitre est une analyse de la langue sur le plan phonétique, morphologique, grammatical et lexicographique. Le troisième chapitre est consacré aux propositions faites pour la rédaction du dictionnaire bilingue lâri-français. / This thesis is to study the lexicography of the lari, who is the third language of the Republic of the Congo, in order to propose the creation of a lari-french bilingual dictionary. The first chapter to understand the history of the ethnic group Balari and location and demographic of the language today. The second chapter is an analysis of the language on the morphological, phonetic, grammatical and lexicographical plan. The third chapter is dedicated to the proposals for the drafting of the lari-french bilingual dictionary.

Doctorat en sciences psychologiques / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

This thesis is an in-depth analysis of <i>La Vie et demie</i>, the first novel of the Congolese writer Sony Labou Tansi, which I consider as a foundational text to the five novels he wrote subsequently.  The novel concerns an imaginary and chaotic country called Katamalanasie which is ruled by the Guide Proventiel, a cruel and sadistic dictator, followed in time by a string of equally barbaric and ruthless tyrants. The thesis explores in close detail the novel’s underlying themes, discusses the literary or mode it belongs to, and maps out the possible effects it has on the reader. My analysis has as its theoretical focus the violence, the ambiguity and the uncanny which characterize three important episodes. Following Christopher L. Miller’s recommendation, that a better understanding by a Western reader of a text emanating from, and embedded in, Africa should involve a dialogic reading of other texts, the thesis is structured as a dialogue between a range of theorists in the fields of the fields of philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and literary theory.  This thematic exploration leads me to identify one overarching theme, namely the precariousness of the state of culture and the dangers of the state of nature.  The literary aspects of this analysis shows that the highly ambiguous nature of the novel forces the reader to question and relativize his or her approach to any African writer whose work is set within an African context. And in a concluding stage to my thesis, I show how the effects of the violence, the ambiguity and the uncanny eventually give way to abjection, causing the reader to experience him or herself the dangers that the breakdown of the state of culture by barbarism represents.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Faculty of the Divinity School, June 2000. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

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Thesis (doctoral)--University of Lund. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-332).

Cette thèse a mené une étude comparative entre les tontines pratiquées sur le marché noir-africain de Château-Rouge et celles pratiquées dans les marchés de Brazzaville. Au Congo, les tontines se développent par défaut d'autres institutions monétaires et de protection sociale accessibles aux populations. Les tontines sont donc un instrument de sécurisation financière évitant aux petits commerçants de dépenser l’intégralité de leurs bénéfices au quotidien. Elles permettent à leurs membres de se protéger de la propension à gaspiller de l’argent, de le mettre à l’abri des voleurs et de la pression des proches. Si les tontines constituent une alternative au système bancaire formel pour les populations à faibles revenus monétaires, elles drainent également une épargne qui alimente des comptes-épargne et qui sert de fonds de roulement aux micro-finances. Dans le contexte migratoire parisien, les femmes congolaises ressentent le besoin de transposer ce dispositif : les tontines deviennent un outil d’intégration sur le marché et un vecteur de socialisation. Par ailleurs, les femmes en situation irrégulière étant exclues du système bancaire et assurantiel français, elles ont recours aux tontines comme instrument d’épargne et de protection sociale. A travers le financement de projets dans le pays d’origine, les tontines établissent un pont entre populations immigrées et leurs proches restés au pays. Dans le cas particulier des femmes prostituées, les tontines apparaissent comme un outil de blanchiment symbolique de l’« argent sale » de la prostitution. / This PhD thesis is a comparative study between tontines practiced on the African migrant market in the Parisian district of Château-Rouge and those practiced in the market of Brazzaville, Congo. In the Congo, tontines spring up in the absence of other accessible monetary and social protection institutions. Therefore tontines are an instrument of financial security enabling small businesses to avoid spending all their earnings on a daily basis. They allow for members to protect themselves from their inclination to overspend or waste money and to shelter money from theft or pressure from peers. Tontines constitute an alternative to the formal banking system for populations with low monetary income, but they also channel savings which fuel savings accounts and serve as working capital to micro-finances institutions. In the Parisian migratory context, Congolese women feel the need to replicate this device: tontines thus become a market integration instrument and a vehicle for socialization. Moreover illegal female immigrants excluded from the French banking and insurance system resort to tontines as a means of social protection and savings. Through financing projects in their country of origin, tontines establish a bridge between immigrant populations and their relatives back home. In the specific case of female prostitutes, tontines appear to be an instrument of symbolic dirty-money laundering.

Dans de nombreuses métropoles, il n'existe pas de transports collectifs centralisés, publics ou privés. Des solutions alternatives se sont développées grâce à des systèmes de transports artisanaux qui reposent sur l'éclatement de la propriété et l'autonomie des équipages de véhicules. Leur mode d'organisation permet aux transports artisanaux de s'adapter à la demande de manière dynamique. Nous proposons d'analyser les caractéristiques de ces systèmes grâce à la modélisation multi-agents et les théories de l'auto-organisation. A travers plusieurs modèles, nous verrons comment les structures et les dynamiques de ces systèmes dépendent des stratégies individuelles et de la structure urbaine. A travers la question de l'adaptabilité du transport en commun, les transports artisanaux nous amènent à nous interroger sur les dimensions urbaines de la mobilité collective mais également sur la flexibilisation des services de transport. / Several metropolises have not any centralized collective transport system, neither private nor public. Alternative solutions appeared, their caracteristics are principally that the ownership is spread out and the vehicle crew is self-directed. The mode of organization of these transports allows them to adapt dynamically to the demand.We propose to analyse the caracteristics of these systems by means of multi-agents modeling and self-organization theory. Using several models, we show how structures and dynamics of these systems are linked to individual strategies and urban structure.Through the question of adaptability of collective transport, small-scale transports led to concern about urban dimensions of collective mobility and flexibilisation of transport services.