%0 Journal Article
%T Agents   ou   patients   ? Agents or patients ? On the agency of the Yucuna shamans of Colombian Amazonia
%A Laurent Fontaine
%J Ateliers du LESC
%D 2010
%I 
%R 10.4000/ateliers.8526
%X La notion d¡¯agentivit¨¦ est extr¨ºmement int¨¦ressante d¡¯un point de vue ethnographique d¨¨s lors qu¡¯elle interroge nos observations sur les lois et les moyens reconnus par les indig¨¨nes pour concevoir les influences exerc¨¦es entre agents et patients. Apr¨¨s avoir propos¨¦ une d¨¦finition formelle suffisamment large de l¡¯agentivit¨¦, on cherchera ¨¤ pr¨¦ciser notre propos, en ¨¦tudiant les paroles des chamanes yucuna qui rec¨¨lent des particularit¨¦s ¨¦clairantes sur les effets ¨¤ l¡¯ uvre entre agents et patients. Il appara t que, dans le chamanisme yucuna, rien n¡¯est jamais d¨¦finitivement agent ou patient, tout pouvoir se manifeste alternativement par des phases   actives  ,   r¨¦actives   ou   r¨¦ceptives   qui d¨¦pendent toujours de conditions sp¨¦cifiques, pouvant parfois ¨ºtre suscit¨¦es ou ¨¦vit¨¦es au moyen de rituels appropri¨¦s. From an ethnographic perspective, the notion of agency is extremely interesting, since it challenges our observations on the laws and means indigenous people recognise for conceiving the influences exerted between agents and patients. After proposing a sufficiently broad formal definition of agency, we will attempt to clarify our stated view by examining Yucuna shaman speech, which reveals some illuminating particularities of the effects in operation between agents and patients. It appears that in Yucuna shamanism, nothing is ever definitely an agent or a patient; all power is manifested alternatively through ¡°active¡±, ¡°reactive¡± or ¡°receptive¡± phases that always depend upon specific conditions, which can sometimes be solicited or avoided by means of appropriate rituals.
%K Yucuna
%K shamanism
%K social rules
%K modal logic
%K agency
%K agentivit¨¦
%K Yucuna
%K chamanisme
%K r¨¨gles sociales
%K logique modale
%K Amazonie du Nord-Ouest
%U http://ateliers.revues.org/8526