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The Law of the Lifegivers The Law of the Lifegivers THE D O M E S T I C A T I O N OF DESI RE Rene Devisch and Claude Brodeur First published 1999 by Harwood academic publishers This edition published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon 0X14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor and Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © 1999 OPA (Overseas Publishers Association) N.V. Published by license under the Harwood Academic Publishers imprint, part of The Gordon and Breach Publishing Group. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 13: 978-9-057-02422-1 (hbk) Cover plate: Mbwoolu cult statuary, of Chief N-tulumba (photograph by R. Devisch, N-tulumba village, July 1974) FOR CLEMENCE AND MARIA TABLE OF CONTENTS Photographs by Rene Devisch ix Preface xi Introduction xiii Maps xxi Part One ITINERARY AND METHODS Chapter 1 From anthropology to psychoanalysis 3 R. Devisch Chapter 2 From psychoanalysis to anthropology 21 C. Brodeur Exchange and confrontation 44 Letter 1 from C. Brodeur Part Two THE YAKA: PRINCIPAL FIGURES Introduction The Yaka 49 R. Devisch Chapter 1 Sorcery and fetish 57 R. Devisch The sorcerer 89 Letter 2 from C. Brodeur Chapter 2 Divination: The birth of uterine discourse 93 R. Devisch The diviner 117 Letters 3 and 4 from C. Brodeur THE LAW OF THE LIFEGIVERS VII TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 3 The therapist: Healing the affects by remodeling the body 125 R. Devisch The therapist 154 Letter 5 from C. Brodeur Chapter 4 The paramount chief: The introduction of the order of ethical law 167 ft Devisch The chief 195 Letter 6 from C. Brodeur Chapter 5 Death and the dialectic of limits 203 ft Devisch Life and death 222 Letter 7 from C. Brodeur Chapter 6 Four figures of the Yaka unconscious 229 ft Devisch A brief synthesis 229 Letter 8 from C. Brodeur Body and discourse 231 Letter 1 from ft Devisch Part Three INTERSECTIONS 245 C. Brodeur and ft Devisch References 257 Index 263 viii THE LAW OF THE LIFEGIVERS PHOTOGRAPHS BY RENE DEVISCH Plate 1 Khosi cult figurine Owner: Mr Ibaanda, Malaatu village (March 1974) 55 Plate 2 Binwaanunu, ritual weapons for defence and attack Owner: Kha Ntiki, Yibeengala village (September 1974) 72 Plate 3-4 Mediumnic diviner Lusuungu Yibeengala village (July 1974) 95 Plate 5 Mediumnic diviner Tseembu, and consultant Yiheeti village (May 1991) 96 Plate 6 Mediumnic diviner N-luma Kinshasa-Masina (May 1990) 96 Plate 7 Ndzaamba ngoombu bag of the diviner, containing the pieces of cloth (yiteendi) which have been in contact with the client’s body Owner: Maa Kyuulu, Luka Suburb of Kinshasa (September 1990) 106 Plate 8 Enthronement of diviner Kyuulu Yikwaati village, N-saka chiefdom (September 1991) 106 Plate 9 Mbwoolu cult statuary Owner: Chief Phaani, N-tulumba village (July 1974) 143 Plate 10 Khita healer Kha N-noongu Kinshasa-Masina (September 1990) 146 Plate 11 Chief Bundzidi, in his sacred enclosure of paramountcy (ndzo malala), sitting on a leopard skin in Yibwaati village (September 1974) 186 Plate 12 Subregional chief, Taanda N-noongu, during investiture, Yitaanda village (November 1973) 194 THE LAW OF THE LIFECIVERS ix
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