Genre et chefferie traditionnelle au Cameroun : le cas des eton. étude anthropologique

Abstract

Our Master project relents: Gender and Chieftaincy in Cameroon: a case study of the Eton community anthropology study. The object of our work is the incompatibility of women in traditional authority management affairs a case an androcratic or phallocratic community. Eton women’s interference in the royal sphere drives men into a notorious indignation. All these remarks are the driver to our research by the influence we attach to our investigations. In order to understand the various mechanisms, we led our questionnaire protocol by a principal question which is: What are the sudden changes noticed within the management process of traditional authority in the Eton land? As hypothesis to this question, we were made to understand that, the sociocultural of the Eton people which back then excluded women in the management process of traditional authority, have later given room to women to integrate notable’s corps furthermore to be traditional rulers. From our analyses, we fixed the objective to: Demonstrate the fact(s) that led women to be implicated in traditional management affairs, within the Eton dynasty, as a compromise to the convivial and development attentions of the Eton people. To this effect, a dual research was undertaken; that is or Documentary or Armchair research, and later terrain. The qualitative treatment of data collected was done under the bases of data analysis. All these data were analyses under the prism of an arthropod-dynamist: permitting us to lay within evidence the mechanism within which the Eton people have gone through several sociopolitical changes as the level of chieftaincy and traditional institutions. From an ethno-analysis through its trilogy, we could situate chieftaincy within its creation context. Holistism permitted us to apprehend the management of traditional authority as a social event and we could understand the depth of this interrogation under Gender and traditional chieftaincy in the éton land. The principals of African epistemology, the fundamental dualism, the potential briefing and multi-symbolism permitted us to produce and understand the meanings of this phenomenon whereby, the positivistic epistemology gets its limit. The results we obtained are as follows: traditional institutions nowadays are androgynous, where Gender participates in the management affairs of the community. The implication of women in the management process of persons and goods poses a plague to the vitality of the traditional power, from their impure character, which renews every month. This status-quothereby creates emptiness within men towards their extraordinary indignation. The Eton people has equally become nowadays in the constant quest of axiological solutions. To remedy this situation, it has become to the Eton community of finding the norms and values that direct its social control. And if that isn’t taken by the bull’s horns, the traditional chieftaincy will disappear, giving room to a pure and established administrative leadership.