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Bekele

Le Bekele est une danse rituelle du peuple bassa exécutée par les hommes. Cette danse initiatique fait bouger les épaules.

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Le Bekele est une danse rituelle du peuple bassa exécutée par les hommes.

01 · What it is
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BibliographieJacques Fame Ndongo, Médias et enjeux des pouvoirs: essai sur le vouloir-faire, le savoir-faire et le pouvoir faire, Presses universitaires de Yaoundé, 2006, 452 p.
Articles connexesPortail du Cameroun Portail des Bassa Portail de la danse
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Le Bekele est une danse rituelle du peuple bassa exécutée par les hommes.

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Le Bekele est une danse rituelle du peuple bassa exécutée par les hommes. Cette danse initiatique fait bouger les épaules. 1

Bibliographie

Jacques Fame Ndongo, Médias et enjeux des pouvoirs: essai sur le vouloir-faire, le savoir-faire et le pouvoir faire, Presses universitaires de Yaoundé, 2006, 452 p. 1

Articles connexes

Histoire de la danse 1

Portail du Cameroun Portail des Bassa Portail de la danse 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Bekele (danse)”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

Bekele is type of dance, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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[1]Wikipedia: Bekele (danse) · encyclopedia
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