Dupré Georges. (1991). Les arbres, le fourré et le jardin : les plantes dans la société de l'Aribinda, Burkina Faso. In :
Dupré Georges. Savoirs paysans et développement. Paris (FRA) ; Paris : ORSTOM ; Karthala, p. 181-194. (Economie et Développement). ISBN 2-86537-314-2.
Titre du document
Les arbres, le fourré et le jardin : les plantes dans la société de l'Aribinda, Burkina Faso
Année de publication
1991
Type de document
Partie d'ouvrage
Auteurs
Dupré Georges
In
Dupré GeorgesSavoirs paysans et développement
Source
Paris (FRA) ; Paris : ORSTOM ; Karthala, 1991,
p. 181-194 (Economie et Développement). ISBN 2-86537-314-2
The impetus behind this chapter came with the idea that oral tradition, handed down over generations in Aribinda, a small locality situated in the north of Burkina Faso, would be a source of information on the spread of spontaneous vegetation over the last hundred years or so. The attempt was in fact to end in failure, yet this very failure is significant in that it highlighted the quality of local knowledge concerning plants in Aribinda; it further commented on the attitudes wich we bring to bear, usually informated by standard anthropological methodology, on knowledge generally within local farming communities. The idea then, was to account for the state of spontaneous vegetation by referring to oral sources. Interviews on local history were set up and indeed were to provide numerous accounts of village settlements, wars and political events, all of which indeed made allusions to local vegetation. On the other hand, these references to vegetation-trees, the bush and the garden figured essentially as symbols which would support questions of legal ownership or of political positions or to insist on the specific independence of this small principality. In short, these tales could be seen less as accounts of historical events than of contemporary ones, and plants when they occured, less as botanical references than social ones. (Résumé d'auteur)
