ENVERS PASTORAL ET REVERS SPIRITUEL DANS L„ESPACE AGRAIRE SENOUFO EN COTE D‟IVOIRE

Abstract

Behind pastoral or technicist model zoo-livestock development in the agricultural area is dependent on Senufo tradition traditional scholarly progress which has long inspired the modern political development in many countries. In this scheme of conventional reading and technicist development, pastoralism is to be reduced to its natural size or material - bio-ecological, zootechnical, economic, veterinarian - to the detriment of non-material aspects - liturgical worship, religious, totemic myth - seen as vestiges of representation "archaic" livestock. Therefore practices "primitive pastoral" appear as a contradiction of rationality "positive" Western. This place theory, the question of religion-ecology system turns out to be nonsense. The livestock project becomes a matter for researchers and technicians nature excluding any social science expertise. But a decade was enough to realize that the results are not commensurate with the investments and expectations failure socioeconomic pastoral project was accompanied by another phenomenon otherwise unexpected: a setback spiritual, psycho-religious bearer "risks" to the cause of the failure of the project. How, then, humanity once "religiously environmentalist" is it achieved a dichotomous representation Ecology Religion-point land in the middle of Senufo propose a purely economic project today and become a client of this ecological consciousness lost? Despite a willingness to break with the ideology scholarly classic, there is a certain slowness to operate the epistemological break.