Cultural Anthropology
[...] I’d dream to have such a professor during those years, someone able to understand, link and entwine the different cause of human evolution: from history to ecology, from biology to geography. [...]
Read MoreJames Cook (1728-1779) was the first English sailor to pass close to New Caledonia during his second Pacific expedition. He was to rename the Big Land in Caledonia, evoking the old Latin name for Scotland.[...]
Read MoreKanak is an originally Polynesian term to define “man”. Since 19th centuries it was used by merchants and explorers to indicate Melanesian populations and its meaning became increasingly pejorative, because it was pointing the slaves working on the sails, in the mines and fields, and so on. [...]
Read MoreThe temporary exhibition “Kanak. L’Art est une Parole” at Musée du Quai Branly is shaped as a typical Kanak’s Big House : at the entrace there are wooden statues evoking ancestor’s presence among inhabitants, while the background the flute sound means the world interpretation before word. [...]
Read MoreDuring our travel among these remote culture we asked ourselves several times which their daily concept of holy and profane were.
There were neither any bells ring among the sounds of villages, nor any Sunday call for gathering, which symbolize and fill our old spiritual tradition and social life.
Read MoreA zoolgist turns in antropologist
A field journal full of cultural adventures and discovers
Read MoreThe research on the field consists in switching from the personal experience to the paper redaction, so the ethnographer witness and produce the information about social and cultural process. In the first article I hinted this topic talking about Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski.
Read More[....] In Anhtropology the so-called “research on the field” was firstly made by Franz Boas (1858-1942). He studied the Kwakiutl Eskimo’s Potlach, they leave along the Pacific Coast in the northern British Columbia, Canada. The Potlach is a ceremonial to achieve a status change, where the social prestige is acquired by giving: among Kwakiutl the social dimension subordinates the economic one.[...]
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