INDIAN OCEAN · LIVING · REVIVED

ORIGINS & SOCIAL FUNCTIONS

Fist contests of Mayotte and the Comoros, held in the circle at village festivities, the Comorian shore of the moraingy world, carried across the channel by the long circulation of peoples between the islands and Madagascar.

THE GAME

Related to the moraingy: punches exchanged in the circle before the village, the assembly interrupting the bout when it judges fit.

PLACE IN THE FAMILY

The mouringue extends the Malagasy striking family across the Comoros channel, and demonstrates the family's geography: practices travelling with peoples, not as fixed styles but as a shared internal logic, the circle, the blow, the assembly's rule, re-instantiated on each shore.

SOURCES

Olivier Malo, La capoeira et les arts de combat noirs : histoire effacée, techniques invisibles, 1905–1984, doctoral thesis in History, Université des Antilles, 2020.

HOW TO CITE THIS ENTRY

MALO, Olivier. Mouringué. In: The Atlas of the Black Combat Arts [online]. Black Combat Arts Institute, 2026. Available from: https://www.blackcombatarts.com/atlas-en/mouringue [accessed date].

RELATED PRACTICES

→ Moraingy, Related to moraingy

→ Moringue, Fist contest in a circle

→ Manì, Halted by the assembly