Cultural Diversity

"Kanak. L'Art est une parole". The temporary exhibition at the Musée du Quai Branly

"Kanak. L'Art est une parole". The temporary exhibition at the Musée du Quai Branly

The 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. [...]

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Christian Drums: religious and spiritual fusion

Christian Drums: religious and spiritual fusion

During 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.

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Introduction to Anthropology II: the research on the field

Introduction to Anthropology II: the research on the field

The 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.

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Diversità Culturale all'ottavo Forum dell'UNESCO per la Gioventù

Diversità Culturale all'ottavo Forum dell'UNESCO per la Gioventù

L'UNESCO lavora per mantenere le tradizioni originali di ogni popolazione facendo in modo che non siano eliminate e sostituite a causa della continua globalizzazione.

Dopo tre giorni di dibattiti, ateliers e stand, ho constatato che i continenti toccati sono lontani dall’Oceania; perché? 

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