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Annales d'Ethiopie - Année 2000 - Volume 16 - Numéro 1 - Pages 107-124Résumé : Dispersés dans la vallée de la Kaari, au sud de l'Akobo, dans l'une des régions les plus isolées de toute l'Ethiopie, les Balé-Zilmamu forment, avec les «Kachepo» du Soudan, une ethnie encore peu étudiée. Tirant l'essentiel de leurs ressources de l'agriculture, les Balé, dont le territoire est peu à peu rogné au nord par l'expansion des Anywak et au sud par les incursions des Tirma, constituent l'exemple d'un groupe humain dont la culture a subi l'influence des peuples voisins. Par leur langue et leur économie, ils sont en effet proches des Mûrie agriculteurs du Plateau de Borna, au Soudan, et des Ngalam de la vallée de l'Erbu. Leurs coutumes (dont le port de gigantesques labrets et la pratique des combats rituels au bâton) les rapprochent en revanche des tribus dites «Surma», avec lesquelles ils entretiennent pourtant des relations souvent tendues.
Summary: Scattered along the Kaari Valley, south of the Akobo River, in one of Ethiopia's most remote and isolated regions, the Balé-Zilmanu comprise, along with the Kachepo of Sudan, a still rarely studied ethnological group. Essentially farmers, the Bale, whose territory is being progressively reduced in the North by the expansion of the Anuak and in the South by incursions from the Tirma, offer an example of an ethnic group deeply influenced by the cultural patterns of neighbouring tribes. Through both their language and agriculture-based economy, they are close to the agricultural Murle of the Boma Plateau in Sudan and the Ngalam of the Erbu River. On the other hand, their customary practices including the wearing of lip-plugs by the women and the practice by men of fighting with staffs, suggest close links with the Surma tribes. However, their relations with these groups are often strained.
18 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
Summary: Scattered along the Kaari Valley, south of the Akobo River, in one of Ethiopia's most remote and isolated regions, the Balé-Zilmanu comprise, along with the Kachepo of Sudan, a still rarely studied ethnological group. Essentially farmers, the Bale, whose territory is being progressively reduced in the North by the expansion of the Anuak and in the South by incursions from the Tirma, offer an example of an ethnic group deeply influenced by the cultural patterns of neighbouring tribes. Through both their language and agriculture-based economy, they are close to the agricultural Murle of the Boma Plateau in Sudan and the Ngalam of the Erbu River. On the other hand, their customary practices including the wearing of lip-plugs by the women and the practice by men of fighting with staffs, suggest close links with the Surma tribes. However, their relations with these groups are often strained.
18 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
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