Affirmation identitaire dans une famille Congo de Cambrefort-Moravie (Guadeloupe, Antilles françaises)

• Main Author: Justin-Daniel Gandoulou
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Université des Antilles 2012-04-01
• Series: Études Caribéennes
• Subjects: identity; Cluster has Kongo; family Massembo; cultural tradition; rite
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/5795

In the post-abolitionist - between 1848 and 1861 - thousands of Kongos arrived in Guadeloupe with the status of immigrants to boost sugar production. Despised, they had great difficulty integrating into society Creole and did not at the cost of a move away from their traditions, language, culture and identity. Massembo family, despite a high social and psychological had preserved and perpetuated cultural traditions Kongos through the ceremony of "cluster has Kongo". Today it is virtually out of the darkness and identity affirmed and recognized.