Oral blanc de préparation à l'épreuve de SES au bac européen
Classe de première ES
Preparation : 20 minutes
Oral exam : 10 minutes, 6-7 minutes to answer the question, and 3-4 minutes for discussion.Using the document and your knowledge, make a structured answer to the following question, you must use examples studied in class.
Subject :
The Tchambuli may be said to live principally for art. Every man is an artist and most men are skilled not in some one art alone, but in many: in dancing, carving, plaiting , painting, and so on. Each man is chiefly concerned with his role upon the stage of his society, with the elaboration of his costume, the beauty of the masks that he owns, the skill of his own flute-playing, the finish and élan of his ceremonies, and upon other people's recognition and valuation of his performance. (…)
For although Tchambuli is patrilineal in organization, although there is polygyny and a man pays for his wife - two institutions that have been popularly supposed to degrade women - it is the women in Tchambuli who have the real position of power in the society. The patrilineal system includes houses and land, residence land and gardening land, but only an occasional particularly energetic man gardens. For food, the people depend upon the fishing of the women. […]
And the women control the proceeds in kinas and talibun . It is true that they permit the men to do the shopping, both for food at the market and in trading the mosquito-bags. The men make a gala occasion of these latter shopping-trips; when a man has the final negotiations for one of his wives' mosquito-bags in hand, he goes off resplendent in feathers and shell ornaments to spend a delightful few days over the transaction. He will hesitate and equivocate , advance here, draw back there, accept this talibun, reject that one, (…) But only with his wife's approval can he spend the talibun and kina and the strings of conus rings that he brings back from his holiday. He has wheedled a good price from the purchaser; he has still to wheedle the items of the price from his wife. From boyhood up, this is the men's attitude towards property. Real property, which one actually owns, one receives from women, in return for languishing looks and soft words.
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The women's attitude towards the men is one of kindly tolerance and appreciation. They enjoy the games that the men play, they particularly enjoy the theatricals that the men put on for their benefit.
[…]Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
Margaret Mead
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