28 August 2019
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Spear: the story of an Indigenous heritage

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Djali wants to understand what it means to be a man. His journey begins in Arnhem Land and takes him to Sydney. Djali’s search for meaning exposes him to the troubled stories of other Indigenous Australian men. He witnesses the indignities and hardships they face as they negotiate life in a contemporary society that ignores their needs. Djali’s challenge is to navigate his way to a state of being that will nourish rather than destroy him.1 Read More

21 August 2019
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La Tortue rouge

       Un homme échoué sur une île pas tout à fait déserte, et qui doit apprendre à survivre dans une nature qu’il ne maîtrise pas ? Non, il ne s’agit pas de La Vie et les aventures étranges et surprenantes de Robinson Crusoé, ni de Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique, mais de l’un des chefs-d’œuvre du cinéma d’animation de ces dernières années : La Tortue rouge. Read More

14 August 2019
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The Other Side of Mountains

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This article was first written for the catalogue of the third edition of the Bourgogne Tribal Show, 2018.

     It was in 1926 that a young 24-year-old Australian arrived in Papua New Guinea for the first time. Like many others, he was attracted by the easy gold of Edie Creek mine. Far from being an El Dorado, the island was a burden for the Australian administration of the 1920s which had just acquired these German lands as a result of the Versailles Treaty. The hot and humid climate of New Guinea and the supposed poverty of its soil dissuaded the government from investing in this new mandated territory, whose only wealth seemed to have been its population who had become cheap labour for planters and colonial miners. Read More

7 August 2019
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Matérialisation et représentation du « divin » en Polynésie (Partie 2)

Cet article fait suite à Matérialisation et représentation du « divin » en Polynésie (Partie 1) que vous pouvez retrouver here.

Un « divin » construit entre terre et mer

      En Polynésie, cette zone géographique complexe et immense, les peuples partagent donc non seulement une histoire commune mais aussi des croyances qui se reflètent d’une île à l’autre et qui semblent provenir de la même origine. Pour mieux comprendre comment les polynésiens représentent mais surtout matérialisent ce ‘divin’ nous allons aujourd’hui nous pencher sur l’origine de ces objets que l’on considère comme des divinités. Read More