Annexes
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De la beauté du geste technique en préhistoire
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What is the nature of the relationship between aesthetics and function in prehistorical tools ? This article revisits Leroi-Gourhan’s notion of “ functional aesthetics ” via the analysis of bifaces – artefacts with two perpendicular planes of symmetry. I argue that the skilled act that lies behind the creation of the tool possesses its own form of ...
Arts de faire, arts de vivre. Chefs-d'œuvre inconnus des compagnons du tour de France
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To obtain the title of “ Compagnon du Tour de France ” (French Master Artisan), the young journeyman must produce a masterpiece that showcases his high degree of technical skill. And a certain technical virtuosity is certainly present in many of these pieces. Such virtuosity, however, is not really the point of the exercise. All journeymen are exce...
Claude Lévi-Strauss, un parcours dans le siècle et Les Structures de l'esprit. Lévi-Strauss et les mythes
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À main levée. La scarification comme œuvre
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When faced with examples and end-products of technical skill and prowess, the lay observer is easily inclined to admiration. His ignorance only serves to heighten this emotion. Bwaba women of Burkina Faso long shrouded in mystery the techniques they used to inscribe the bodies of young men and women with their complex graphic compositions. Their sk...
Gaetano Ciarcia (dir.) Ethnologues et passeurs de mémoires
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Aurélie Helmlinger. Pan Jumbie. Mémoire sociale et musicale dans les steelbands (Trinidad et Tobago)
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« Comment Homo devint faber. Comment l'outil fit l'homme. »
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Archéologie et ventriloquie. Jeux de chaises et de choses au bord d'une tranchée archéologique
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Archaeology and ventriloquism: making objects speak in an archaeological digAn archeological dig is the terrain for many thought experiments, “at the extreme limit of the identifiable, at almost degree zero from the evidence, on the border of nothing” (Cohen 2011: 83). We will try to better describe these experiments in representation based on some...
Octave Debary et Mélanie Roustan. Voyage au musée du quai Branly. Anthropologie de la visite du plateau des collections
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