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This study describes the author's experience of learning to be a medium in the context of research on a group of Spiritualists in Montreal. The methodological, ethical and personal implications of such an approach are examined. I then examine how such an approach is discussed may contribute to a better understanding of the spiritual experiences of those who participated in the study.
Keywords: Meintel, anthropologie expérientielle, religion, médiumnité, travail de terrain, spiritualisme, Meintel, Experiential Anthropology, Fieldwork, Religion, Mediumship, Spiritualism, Meintel, antropología experiencial, religión, mediumnidad, trabajo de campo, espiritismo
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Sub-Saharan African countries are facing important teacher shortages, and the high growth of their school-age populations means that the problem will persist. It is therefore crucial for these countries to optimize the use of their teaching personnel by ensuring that they are equitably distributed among schools. To what extent is the distribution of teachers among schools equitable in the region? How can it be improved? To answer these questions, this study uses two indicators: the student/teacher ratio and the degree of randomness in the allocation of teachers to schools (1-R2), as well as data collected through a "country questionnaire" completed by key actors in the Departments of Education of 26 sub-Saharan African countries. We thus used a quantitative and qualitative approach to assess the allocation of teachers in the countries studied, and to understand the gaps observed in order to envisage solutions. We found that few francophone sub-Saharan African countries are equitably distributing teachers among their schools. Position-based hiring and computerizing certain aspects of teacher management are put forward as possible solutions.
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The Wadi Saïda lies within the Mediterranean basins of northwestern Algeria and is characterized by a semi-arid climate. Rainfall is very irregular in time and space and occurs in the form of intensive showers that lead to important erosion and solid transport. This work focuses on the study of the relationship between the concentration of suspended sediment, C, and flow rate, Ql, for hydrological events such as floods. The analysis of graphs representing C as a function of Ql for 11 floods in the Wadi Saïda revealed three types of hysteresis curves: clockwise, counterclockwise and figure-eight. The sediment discharge Qs for each flood is related to flow by the power relation Ql= aQlb. The floods studied with a clockwise hysteresis curve have maximum concentrations and generally high flow. Loops in the counterclockwise and figure-eight configurations for the relationship (C-Ql) are characteristic of winter and spring floods, which present the lowest concentrations of suspended solids; soil conditions and vegetation cover are such that erosive action is reduced.
Keywords: Matières en suspension, débit solide, crue, hystérésis, zone semi-aride, Suspended solids, sediment discharge, flood, hysteresis, semi-arid zone
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This paper deals with the African city and its mode of production, principally the periods before and after the "balkanisation". It examines various urbanistic practices such as that of urban network, regional organisation as related to agricultural resources, and intensive urbanisation. The observation is that after independence all these practices transposed whether consciously or not on negro-African soil have become outdated since they conflict with the local context. A brief conclusion allows us to pose a number of questions on these post-colonial urbanistic practices. In view of avoiding future errors of conception, one would suggest a new urbanistic practice for the construction of an authentic negro-African city that one may call Afrikacity, since the discrepancy between the proposed model and the present structures exists yet today.
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Stromboli, a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, is home to one of the most active volcanoes on the planet and is the land of a community of islanders, the Strombolani. The latter, through complex mental processes and adjustments, manage to make this place – although considered by some as particularly exposed to various geological hazards – a place of life, where the volcano, more than an inspiration of death, symbolizes the breathing of a living Earth. Through an inversion of their point of view, they offer us an insight into the processes of appropriation of the deadly risk, in this case volcanic, to create an appeased daily life.
Keywords: ethnographie, volcanisme, risques, ontologies, etnografía, vulcanismo, riesgo, ontologías