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Continuité des rites : le nombril des églises et le placenta des hommes en Polynésie orientale

Bruno Saura
p. 39-52

Abstracts

The Christian ritual constisting in laying the foundation stone of a temple or a church bears in Eastern Polynesia a deep symbolic signification. As a matter of fact, it echos back two autochtoneous traditions of foundation still very observed, the burial of the infant’s placenta, and the conservation of its umbilical cord. These correspondances are not only a really for the analyst : as will be shown in this article, the rituals do interfere mutually, both in their logic and through the objects involved in its accomplishment.

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References

Bibliographical reference

Bruno Saura, “Continuité des rites : le nombril des églises et le placenta des hommes en Polynésie orientale”Journal de la Société des Océanistes, 116 | 2003, 39-52.

Electronic reference

Bruno Saura, “Continuité des rites : le nombril des églises et le placenta des hommes en Polynésie orientale”Journal de la Société des Océanistes [Online], 116 | Année 2003-1, Online since 26 May 2008, connection on 19 April 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/jso/1171; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/jso.1171

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About the author

Bruno Saura

Université de la Polynésie Française, B.P. 6570 Faaa Aéroport. Tahiti. Polynésie française. Email : brunosaura@yahoo.fr

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