Guinea: The Mobilization of a People pdf

Claude Rivière est professeur émérite d’anthropologie à l’Université de Paris V depuis son départ à la retraite en 1999. Né à Curzon (Vendée) le 24/12/1932, il a été instituteur dans le primaire aux Sables d’Olonne, militaire en Algérie, professeur de philosophie et de lettres dans le secondaire à Angers et Lorient. Son doctorat de philosophie, « L’objet social » . Son Doctorat d’Etat (dir. : G. Balandier) porte sur « La dynamique de la stratification sociale en Guinée » (1975). Après ses premières recherches sur l’Afrique (Guinée, Togo notamment), il étudie les rites politiques et profanes en Europe.

Guinea: The Mobilization of a People pdf par Claude Riviere

Since the West African countries became independent some fifteen years ago, it has been more difficult to obtain reliable information about Guinea than about any of the others. Its president, Ahmed Sékou Touré, has been particularly suspici ous of outside contacts, especially while the Portuguese controlled adjacent Guinea-Bissau, whose liberation movement, the Partido Africano da Independencia da Guiné e Cabo Verde (PAIGC), he supported, and from which, allegedly, Guinea was invaded in November 1970. After the PAIGC was recognized as the legitimate government of Guinea-Bissau, following the coup of April 1974 in Portugal, Sékou Touré has shown less apprehension of possible external threats to his country. Guinea is still less accessible to most outsiders, how ever, than are its larger neighbors. Claude Riviere’s study is therefore especially valuable, for it not only reflects his first hand observations in Guinea but also embodies the results of long-term and recent research by this eminent French scholar, who is internationally recognized as an outstanding authority on the country.