Francis Aupiais

Francis Aupiais (11 August 1877 – 14 December 1945) was a French

He was born in Saint-Père-en-Retz and studied at the Missions Africains de Lyon seminary. He was ordained a priest in 1902.^[1] He briefly worked in Senegal before being sent to Dahomey. In 1903, he was named vicar of Abomey, and soon took on several other administrative roles in Porto-Novo.^[2] Aupiais was reassigned to Dakar from 1915 to 1918. At the end of World War I, he returned to Dahomey and served as director of mission schools.^[1] Aupiais was an important religious figure and helped advance the careers of Paul Hazoumé and Sourou-Migan Apithy.^[2] In 1925, Aupiais founded the journal La Reconnaissance Africaine, striving to publish ethnographic studies by Dahomeyans and popularize African culture abroad. He was a strident admirer of the indigenous culture and integrated traditional music, costumes and dances into religious celebrations.^[1]

In 1926, he returned to Paris and sought to end forced labor in the colonies and joined the executive committee of the annual Louvain Missiology Week. Aupiais studied at the newly opened

References

• Houngnikpo, Mathurin; Decalo, Samuel (2013). Historical Dictionary of Benin. Rowman & Littlefield.
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• Ciarcia, Gaetano, (2019). « Le paganisme et son ordre moral. Le vodun comme “pierre d’attente” dans le corpus filmique Le Dahomey religieux de Francis Aupiais (1930) », in Gaetano Ciarcia & André Mary (ed.), Ethnologie en situation missionnaire, Les Carnets de Bérose n° 12, Paris, BEROSE - International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology, pp. 214-249.

External links

• Resources related to research : BEROSE - International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology. "Aupiais, Francis (1877-1945)", Paris, 2019. (ISSN 2648-2770) `

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