- Hauka
The Hauka movement was a religious movement which arose in French Colonial Africa. It consisted of ceremonies, including mimicry and dancing, in which the participants performed the elaborate military ceremonies of their colonial occupiers. It was depicted in "
Les Maîtres Fous " (The Mad Masters – 1955), ashort film directed byJean Rouch , a well-known Frenchfilm director andethnologist . [ [http://www.maitres-fous.net/filmography/film_reviews/les_maitres_fous.html Les Maitres Fous review] .]According to some anthropologists, the movement was a form of resistance that began in
Niger , but spread to other parts ofAfrica . According to some anthropologists, this pageant, though historic, was largely done to mock their authority by stealing their powers. Hauka members were not trying to emulate Europeans, but were trying to extract their life force – something “entirely African”.Fact|date=August 2008This stance has been heavily criticized by anthropologist James G. Ferguson, who finds this imitation not about importing colonialism into indigenous culture, but as a way to gain rights and status in the colonial society. The adoption of European customs was not a form of resistance, but to be “respected by the Europeans.” [cite paper
author = James G. Ferguson
title = Of Mimicry and Membership: Africans and the "New World Society"
publisher = American Anthropological Society
date = 2002
format = Paper]ee also
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Cargo cult
*Ghost dance References
External links
* [http://savageminds.org/2007/06/16/les-maitres-fous/ Les Maîtres Fous] at Savage Minds (notes and queries in
anthropology )
* [http://www.der.org/films/mad-masters.html Les Maîtres Fous] – article at Documentary (Educational Resouces)
* [http://www.africanfilmny.org/network/news/T01m2reddy.html The Poesis of Mimesis in Les Maîtres Fous] – article by Prerana Reddy
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=uRq1HF-z1w0C&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=les+maitres+fous+jean+rouch&source=web&ots=e8Fxm3lZRd&sig=lQbDHkCdwovAbG1BDJCSLmNhedg&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA98,M1 The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Anthropology] – article by Anna Grimshaw
* [http://ccms.ukzn.ac.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=240&Itemid=43 Les Maîtres Fous] – article by Natalie Mildbrodt
* [http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/actions-france_830/documentaire_1045/diffusion-non-commerciale_5378/collections-dvd_5373/grand-ecran_10336/hommage-jean-rouch_10341/les-maitres-fous_10628/index.html Les Maîtres Fous] (fr) at French Diplomacy
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048363/ Les Maîtres Fous] at the IMDb
* [http://www.societyforvisualanthropology.org/2008symposium_rouch.html International Jean Rouch SYMPOSIUM] (Society of Visual Anthropology)
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