In 1973, when he presented himself at the Practic School of Hautes Études, Michel Cartry had indicated that his teaching project would focus on analysing think systems in Black Africa, and that he would carry out this analysis by following two research directions, one on the ideal of the unified body and the topic of the body fragmented through myths, tales and ritual practices, and the other on divinatory systems. Certainly, he will have developed this programme to its lowest...