期刊名称：Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa
印刷版ISSN：2067-0931
出版年度：2020
卷号：17
期号：2
页码：63-74
语种：English
出版社：Editura Muzeul National al Literaturii Romane
摘要：Initiation is a phenomenon that touches upon the essential question of the human condition. It is therefore not surprising that it occupies a prominent place among blacksmiths. As regards the blacksmiths of Central Africa and particularly the Ankutshu Membele of Kasaï,in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,integration into these social class requires,in any case,an initiation. Thus,by initiation,this social class generally designates a set of rites and oral teachings or practices which aim at radically changing the status of the subject to be initiated. Philosophically speaking,initiation is regarded as an ontological mutation of the existential regime,because,at the end of the teaching-learning process,the initiate or the neophyte enjoys a completely different existence than before the initiation.
关键词：Initiation;blacksmiths;Central Africa;rites of oral teachings; ontological mutation
