Modeled on marital alliances, the highly ritualized acquisition of boliw suggests a parallel between these prodigious objects and mythical women in Manding traditions. Like these women, these power-objects are highly charged with the reproduction of persons and society. Restent un ou deux signes par colonne. Batterie de boliw du Ci Wara, Dyele, cl.
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La question est de savoir qui sont ou que sont ces partenaires. Des familles exclues de toute position de pouvoir politique manifeste pouvaient augmenter leur force sociale en fondant un sanctuaire. On dira, par exemple: On en trouve trace dans les chants et les louanges. Bloomington, Indiana University Press. Would you also like to submit a review for this item? You already recently rated this item. Your rating has been recorded. Write a review Rate this item: Preview this item Preview this item. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Publisher: French View all editions and formats Rating: Allow this favorite library to be seen by others Keep this favorite library private.
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This is the crux of a decades-old debate — can one help people while condemning their conduct? Can one infringe the principle of neutrality and still be credible? Does this not lead back to the eternal confusion between impartiality and neutrality?
Ferry also points out that humanitarian action is criticized as being a means of diverting citizens from issues that really need to be addressed, and that by combating the effects rather than the causes of crises it may well prolong privations. In the field, States use it as an excuse for inaction, as in Bosn ia-Herzegovina. State humanitarianism, which is ineffective, undermines and discredits private humanitarian efforts.
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Intervention on humanitarian grounds may be in keeping with universally applied humanitarian principles, but in every conflict situation it entails the risk of a return to colonialism, and any intervention it claims to justify is the result of arbitrary decisions. While not openly taking sides for or against the right of intervention on humanitarian grounds, Ferry is against doing away with humanitarian diplomacy and going back to old-style diplomacy. It would not be true to claim that in Bosnia, for example, European States would have intervened more forcefully had there been no humanitarian activities under way, and that it was because of these that they said nothing for so long.
Ferry recognizes that in the end the great difficulty lies in sorting out the relations between politics and humanitarian action. Combining them would be absurd, and in practice do harm; self-serving initiatives by governments would endanger private organizations and this is why, he stresses, " the Red Cross has until now upheld the principle of neutrality. The two have to be linked in some way, however, because " although humanitarian action is not a matter of politics, in a democratic system politics cannot disregard humanitarian matters.
Like Rony Brauman [14 ] , Ferry believes that humanitarian workers are the last privileged few of modern times, because they have managed to give their lives a purpose.
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Ferry obviously believes that human beings are sacred, that they have somehow been made divine, and in his conclusion he therefore elevates the humanitarian ideal into a religion of man-God. He lays down the premises of a " transcendental " humanism, a lay spirituality taking the place of traditional religions and hard-line materialism.
Man made sacred is the starting point and the ultimate goal of a humanistic approach that sees love, especially the love of one's fellow human beings, as the true meaning of life. Finkielkraut does not share Ferry's idealistic vision. Humanitarian workers caring for the sick and wounded are not interested in who these are, what they represent or why they are being persecuted. All that matters is saving lives.
Solidarity thus turns into mothering on a huge scale, but humanitarian action is absent from the upheavals and tensions that precede disasters.
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In this respect, Finkielkraut believes humanitarian action to be simplistic. If we were to cast a critical glance at these two books, we would first of all note that this search for the meaning of life, for a moral frame of reference, and this ferment of ideas about humanitarian ideals, are essentially Western phenomena. The real victims of the " disenchantment with the world " are, says Max Weber, to be found mainly in the Christian Western world, particularly among European Catholics.
As Jean Daniel says, " neither the Muslims in the Western world, nor the Turks, Moroccans or migrants, nor the Jews anywhere, nor even the majority of American Protestants, appear to be in desperate search of their lost frames of reference. Humanitarian action that Ferry sees elevated to the status of a new religion is exclusively a lay movement — this is an express condition of its universality — and is completely neutral.
But it is also a concept that turns love into something sacred, and in this it is close to Christian love. Ferry himself recognizes that modern humanism draws its strength from the ideal of Christian love.
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This " revamped " humanistic approach therefore does not reject altogether the ideals which have been promoted by the great religions of the world for thousands of years. Is not Ferry's humanitarian ideal in fact the Christian ideal rid of its dogmas, prohibitions and constraints, and therefore easier to propagate because it is more readily accessible?
The question remains whether a lay spirituality based on human rights can command unanimous approval, given the interpretations, deviations and dysfunctions to which human rights are subject. Both Finkielkraut and Ferry praise humanitarian organizations for denouncing scandals and rehabilitating victims, but what bothers Finkielkraut is that humanitarian action confines itself to caring for victims and takes no interest in the causes and effects of scourges.
According to him, the hu manitarian effort needs bloodshed to prompt it into action, it feeds on human distress — a phenomenon which he describes as a sentimental reaction to distress [16 ].
This statement seems far too sweeping and even inaccurate. Ferry, for his part, fully understands that humanitarian assistance cannot be limited to emergency situations, that it should also try to alleviate the causes of suffering and to repair the harm done, and at any rate find others to take over and ensure the rehabilitation of the victims and the subsequent development of their communities. On the other hand, coordination between the organizations concerned, between decision-makers and those taking action, has often yielded favourable results.
All these are valid arguments, but do not suffice to settle the problem of relations between politics and humanitarian action. Finkielkraut tries to explain what he means by the simplistic approach of the latter. In his view, humanitarian initiatives relieve politicians of responsibility by allowing them to " engage in narcissistic first aid instead of resolving the difficult issue of how to help But who is to blame?
Political leaders, who because of their weaknesses and mistakes have unloaded their responsibilities onto the humanitarian sector, indirectly causing its great expansion, with the help of the media?