Texte remanié de: Ph. D. / Appendice en grec et anglais. Bibliogr. p. [176]-187. Index.

Texte remanié de: Doct. Diss.--University of Toronto, 1991.

Dissertation--Theology--Basel, 1977. / Bibliogr. p. 230-245.

Thesis advisor: Randy Sachs / Thesis advisor: Richard Lennan / Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2012. / Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry. / Discipline: Sacred Theology.

En portant son regard sur le droit dans les pays d’Afrique francophone, une constante apparaît, le conflit entre tradition et modernité ou entre coutume et droit moderne. Le droit pénal n’échappe pas à ce conflit qui a un impact sur la politique criminelle des États depuis les indépendances jusqu’à nos jours. C’est pourquoi une réflexion sur « le droit pénal africinsous tension : entre tradition et modernité » mérite d’être menée. En effet, les études et articles foisonnent sur la question de la tradition et de la modernité en droit. Le plurijuridisme qui en résulte a aussi fait l’objet de nombreuses études. Mais ces études font très rarement cas de l’impact de cette situation sur les politiques criminelles étatiques. On constate également, au-delà de la seule critique de principe du mimétisme, une absence d’études spécifiques sur les conséquences de ce conflit sur la qualité des législations. D’ailleurs, ce mimétisme suffit-il à lui seul à expliquer ce conflit et ses conséquences sur la vie juridique ? La présente étude ne manque donc pas d’intérêt et constitue un apport à la perception de la situation juridique des Etats d’Afrique francophone en matière pénale tout autant qu’elle propose la construction d’un Droit Africain. / By focusing on the law in the countries of Francophone Africa, a constant appears, the conflict between tradition and modernity or between custom and modern law. Criminal law is not immune to this conflict, which has an impact on the criminal policies of states since independence to the present day. This is why a reflection on "criminal law in French-speaking African countries between tradition and modernity" deserves to be carried out. Indeed, studies and articles abound on the question of tradition and modernity in law. The resulting plurijuridism has also been the subject of many studies. But these studies rarely mention the impact of this situation on state criminal policies. Beyond the mere criticism of mimicry, there is also a lack of specific studies on the consequences of this conflict on the quality of legislation. Moreover, is this mimicry enough to explain this conflict and its consequences on legal life? The present study does not lack interest and constitutes a contribution to the perception of the legal situation of the States of Francophone Africa in criminal matters just as much as it proposes the construction of an African Law.

Doctorat en philosophie et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

with Prof. Lisa Cahill, Prof. Thomas Hibbs, and Fr. Michael Himes / Robsham Theater

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Oral tradition is the knowledge a society perpetuates through spoken means in order to make them reach present and future generations. The richness, complexity and dynamism of these contents, as well as the one of those elements associated to their (re)production, turn them into cultural expressions of an undeniable value. The pressure of written systems and mass media push oral tradition to stand serious threatens to its survival. Even if there are countless institutions of memory management -libraries, archives, documentation centers- working on this non-material heritage, a deep analysis of the real importance of this work is lacking. This paper presents some concepts on oral tradition and its features, exposing the necessary techniques for its collection and stating several questions concerning its future and its relation with librarianship. From a continent where orality played and plays a strong role in the building of popular cultures, it is expected that LIS professionals will develop a more active role in its recovery and spread, in order to not allowing silence to destroy those voices telling their stories from the dawn of time.

Latin American indigenous populations are fragile human miracles, trying to survive and perpetuate their menaced cultural heritage and way of life -including more than 250 languages- under the pressure of a predominantly Euro-American society. Their traditional knowledge is the product of centuries of experiences, and is mainly transmitted through oral and artistic expressions, unstable means mainly based on the correct use of memory. The collection of oral tradition and its management in libraries and archives is not widely spread in Latin America, even if there are some previous experiences on this issue. Oral-archiving techniques and tools have been highly developed and used with other social sectors all around the continent, but native peoples have been longly neglected or even forgotten. Meanwhile, with every old person who dies in the aboriginal communities, a whole library just vanishes. This paper is aimed at presenting a brief introduction to oral archives and indigenous knowledge in Latin America, emphasizing the urgent necessity of designing stronger and wider research policies for libraries, universities and governmental institutions. The author also presents some ideas and proposals, based in his own work (2002-2005) developing a network of libraries with sound collections in indigenous communities in northern Argentina.