TY - JOUR
KW - Fighting practices
KW - Indian ocean islands
KW - intangible heritage
KW - Performance
KW - Techniques
AU - E. Combeau-Mari
AB - The moring is a traditional fighting practice shared by Madagascar and the small islands of the Southwest part of Indian Ocean that is still popular today. This article wishes to enhance how from the same Malagasy origin, physical activity is diffused and renewed during the 20th century in the big island, Mayotte and Reunion Island. Dependent on political and cultural challenges, it assumes technical forms and social meanings according to its location and its modes of diffusion. Based on ancestral values, through the lively performance it generates, the physical aspect remains a strong identity vehicle, repeatedly mobilizing the dimension of memory and heritage. Our methodological approach lies on a combination of written sources: the press and travel stories and oral sources like interviews and anthropological investigations.
DO - 10.3917/sta.101.0069
M1 - 101
N1 - Publisher: Boeck Universite
N2 - The moring is a traditional fighting practice shared by Madagascar and the small islands of the Southwest part of Indian Ocean that is still popular today. This article wishes to enhance how from the same Malagasy origin, physical activity is diffused and renewed during the 20th century in the big island, Mayotte and Reunion Island. Dependent on political and cultural challenges, it assumes technical forms and social meanings according to its location and its modes of diffusion. Based on ancestral values, through the lively performance it generates, the physical aspect remains a strong identity vehicle, repeatedly mobilizing the dimension of memory and heritage. Our methodological approach lies on a combination of written sources: the press and travel stories and oral sources like interviews and anthropological investigations.
SP - 69
EP - 80
TI - Moraingy, mrenge, moring: duration and re-invention of traditional fighting practices in Indian Ocean Islands: Madagascar, Mayotte and Reunion.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84898976541&doi=10.3917%2fsta.101.0069&partnerID=40&md5=14b84f7039970c8ee4c5e9fe3e82c35e
VL - 101
SN - 0247106X (ISSN)
ER -