Esprits sexués et maux sexuels

ce qu’il est bon de dire chez les devins-guérisseurs malgaches

Abstract

This article proposes a rereading of discourses collected from healers and believers, regarding religion in light of sexuality, which is seldom evoked in Madagascar (be it factual or symbolic in the case of Man/entity marital alliances). The fieldwork studies the relationship between religion and sexuality in the care rooms of healers-diviners, in other words, it is about grasping how the healers-diviners and/or the patients encountered on this fieldwork conducted in the betsileo region, south of the Central Highlands of the island, compose their discourses on sexuality in a religious context and in front of the ethnologist. Sexuality meets religion either through alliances or filiation, as the cause of the consultation, is not mentioned or is deflected using humor.