À la recherche de l’historicité de l’Unita

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" À la recherche de l’historicité de l’Unita "
Michel Cahen

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1083433
Doc. No	:	LA127062
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18748945-02803008‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Michel Cahen
Title & Author	:	À la recherche de l’historicité de l’Unita [Article]\ Michel Cahen
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Social Sciences and Missions
Date	:	2015
Volume/ Issue Number	:	28/3-4
Page No	:	373–383
Abstract	:	A certain historiography of Unita, the main Angolan rebellion fighting against the MPLA regime between 1975 and 2002, presents this movement as the natural product of an ethnic (ovimbundu) and religious (American congregationnalism) maturation in the central Highlands of Angola. Didier Péclard, in his book Les incertitudes de la nation en Angola. Aux racines sociales de l’Unita, deconstructs this argument methodically. He does not deny or underplay ethnic and religious factors, but he studies them in the longue durée, thus avoiding any teleological approach. It is not because Unita took root among the umbundu population and gained important support from a section of the American congregationalist church after 1975 that we can say that this destined to happen. Thereafter Didier Péclard offers us a fine historical sociology of politics which offers an excellently textured contribution to the history of Angola and, more specifically yet, of Unita: one of the Angolan liberation movements which remains the least studied.
Descriptor	:	American congregationalism
Descriptor	:	Angola
Descriptor	:	central planalto
Descriptor	:	congrégationnalisme américain
Descriptor	:	ethnicité
Descriptor	:	ethnicity
Descriptor	:	historiographie
Descriptor	:	historiography
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	Ovimbundu
Descriptor	:	planalto central
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	Unita
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18748945-02803008‬