{"title":"Le cannibale et la justice: De l’obsession coloniale à la mort pénale (Côte d’Ivoire et Guinée française, années 1920)","authors":"Thaïs Gendry","doi":"10.3917/ving.140.0055","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"EnglishIn the 1920s, the colonial tribunals of French Guinea and the Ivory Coast witnessed a rash of death sentences handed down to a very specific group of criminals: cannibals. This article analyses this historical episode and demonstrates how condemnations for cannibalism were driven by political imperatives, which were in turn rooted in fantastical perceptions of African identity. Without any tangible proof but the unwavering support of Metropolitan authorities, colonial administrators implemented an unprecedented policy of judicial repression against the people of the Guinean and Ivorian forest. francaisDans les annees 1920, les tribunaux coloniaux de Guinee francaise et de Cote d’Ivoire furent pris d’une fievre de condamnations a mort a l’encontre de criminels d’un genre special : les anthropophages. Cet article analyse l’histoire de cet episode et montre comment les condamnations pour anthropophagie sont avant tout issues d’imperatifs politiques coloniaux, nourris par des fantasmes a l’egard des peuples africains. Sans preuve materielle aucune, les administrateurs menerent, avec l’appui des autorites metropolitaines, une politique de repression judiciaire sans precedent contre les populations de la foret ivoirienne et guineenne.","PeriodicalId":51845,"journal":{"name":"Vingtieme Siecle-Revue d Histoire","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Vingtieme Siecle-Revue d Histoire","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3917/ving.140.0055","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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EnglishIn the 1920s, the colonial tribunals of French Guinea and the Ivory Coast witnessed a rash of death sentences handed down to a very specific group of criminals: cannibals. This article analyses this historical episode and demonstrates how condemnations for cannibalism were driven by political imperatives, which were in turn rooted in fantastical perceptions of African identity. Without any tangible proof but the unwavering support of Metropolitan authorities, colonial administrators implemented an unprecedented policy of judicial repression against the people of the Guinean and Ivorian forest. francaisDans les annees 1920, les tribunaux coloniaux de Guinee francaise et de Cote d’Ivoire furent pris d’une fievre de condamnations a mort a l’encontre de criminels d’un genre special : les anthropophages. Cet article analyse l’histoire de cet episode et montre comment les condamnations pour anthropophagie sont avant tout issues d’imperatifs politiques coloniaux, nourris par des fantasmes a l’egard des peuples africains. Sans preuve materielle aucune, les administrateurs menerent, avec l’appui des autorites metropolitaines, une politique de repression judiciaire sans precedent contre les populations de la foret ivoirienne et guineenne.