Abstract. – The authors propose the hypothesis that there exists an articulation between the anthropology of conflict and the anthropology of communication, opening an access to a new mode of understanding of a disorder inside a clan. The article highlights respectively the structures of sense (survival, solidarity, safety), the structures of control (domination, power, authority), the strategies of sociability (agreements, contacts, functions), and the strategies of otherness (competition, conflict), which allow to maintain the order of the clan lungu. [Congo Brazzaville, the Teke, the Mibamba, clan lungu, disorder, agreement, strategy, systemic]