Écriture et ethnographie missionnaires : Chez les Fang ou quinze années de séjour au Congo français d’Henri Trilles

Abstract

Analysis and description (in interpretative semantics terms) of anthropologic concepts referred to the traditional fang society, which appear in a spiritan French missionary work. The study of thematic items, their organization, their relations and the semantic levels and fields involved, shows the fang prototype surviving in European imaginary during the French colonization.