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« La danse africaine » : une catégorie anthropologisée.

Les effets retours des disciplines scientifiques sur les pratiques artistiques.

Mahalia Lassibille | 22.08.2016

Le terme « danse africaine » est fréquemment utilisé pour désigner les danses d’Afrique noire qui seraient caractérisées par un cadre musical de percussions, des mouvements du bassin… Mais à quoi correspond cette caractérisation ? Comment cette catégorie s’est-elle construite ? En quoi l’anthropologie a-t-elle pu y avoir un rôle prépondérant ? Les danses d’Afrique ont été attribuées à partir du 19e siècle au domaine de l’anthropologie qui en a déterminé les principales caractéristiques. Ces traits ont participé à [...]

L’équitation française et sa patrimonialisation dans la société des loisirs.

Sylvine Pickel-Chevalier | 26.07.2016

Equitation in the French tradition has been registered in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO since 2011. This event questions the capacity for perpetuation of a living heritage within the contemporary society as well as the role of leisure activities and tourism, which allowed the adaptation of a way of riding formerly associated with travel and war through the practice of sports leisure activities, but also artistic and tourist representations (e.g. shows). The [...]

Enseigner les sciences humaines et sociales : une promesse difficile.

Patricia Legris | 12.07.2016

The teaching of social sciences has been debated since the end of the Second World War in France, disrupting the school curriculum. This paper seeks to explain the role that the actors involved in education played in integrating social sciences and making history the most important subject of study. It also shows that the desire to reform education restricts it more than it opens it to new opportunities and approaches. [...]

La pauvreté et l’art misérable, dix ans déjà!

Christian Bouquet | 01.07.2016

Ten years ago, one of Gupta’s works (Cow), which was presented at the Foire internationale d’art contemporain in Paris, was disturbing insofar that it reproduced the image of poor Madagascan milk producers who, each morning, hurtled down the hills of Tananarive on ramshackle bikes, their handlebars loaded with ancient and heavy milk pails. In 2016, nothing has changed, except that a third pail has been strapped to the back of the bikes. Has Cow been augmented or has misery [...]

L’actualité d’une pensée politique.

Castoriadis, Cornelius. 2015. La société bureaucratique, écrits politiques 1945-1997. Tome V. Paris : Sandre.

Christophe Premat | 24.05.2016

The reedition of Castoriadis’s political work is a real act of autonomy given the context of closure of the capitalistic and bureaucratic regimes. The book includes articles published by Castoriadis in the periodical Socialisme ou Barbarie at the end of the 1940s, and a series of later analyses of the evolution of the Russian regime. Writing on Russia is not just about describing the degenerescence of a political system; it is also a way of throwing light on the [...]

Habiter : Hortense fait tourner l’appareil.

Soichet, Hortense. 2016. Esperem ! Images d’un monde en soi. Paris : Créaphis.

Olivier Lazzarotti | 17.05.2016

The experience of « social photography » that has been led by the photographer Hortense Soichet and the Association d’éducation populaire auprès des femmes (GRAPh-CMI) of the gypsy town of Eperem, near Carcassonne, instigates a reflection on the concept of « dwelling » as reciprocal construction of the inhabitants and the world by revealing a part of the town’s dynamics. [...]