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Material and cultural interactions between Ladakh and Central Asia from 1^er to 8^e century d.n.è: the new ceramic data of the Dras Valley.

by Samara Broglia de Moura (doctoral student at EPHE/CRCAO)

February 23, 2021 at 6 p.m.

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View other shotsExhibition WABI-SABI

The Barbier-Mueller Museum of Geneva organizes a new exhibition

WABI-SABI

confronting the objects of his collection with Steve McCurry's photographs.

We are happy to find there, in a showcase, a Laké from the Kathmandu valley that was part of the Roof of the World collections.

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CHAMANES

by SÉBASTIEN BAUD & CORINE SOMBRUN

Summary:

Since the dawn of time, shamans have fascinated us. Who are they? What is their role? What are their tools? How does one become a shaman? Richly illustrated, this book depicts the evolution of the figure of the shaman in the Western imagination. From the first accounts of the encounter to the stories of shamans of today, the ethnologist SEBASTIEN BAUD explores the links between visible and invisible, human and animal, culture and nature as the shamanic societies conceive them. 2 3

Click to enlargeCORINE SOMBRUN, in turn, presents us with the exciting quest for the links between trance and neuroscience. A true journey through time to discover the shamanism of yesterday and today.

Photo: Bamiyan,
Afghanistan ©Roland LinCultural Landscape Studies and Heritage Conservation in Muslim Asia

The first course of the EPHE seminar given by Roland LIN Chih-Hung entitled:

Étude du paysage culturel et conservation du patrimoine en Asie

will take place on Friday, November 27^th from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm.

Interested persons must pre-register by writing to:

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Click to enlargeMasks for the Dance Phagli Festival - Himachal Pradesh
Collection Tom van Groeningen

by Tom van Groeningen with an interview by dr. Stephan Steinmetz PhD

The more than a hundred tribal masks in this publication are a selection of the extensive collection of the Dutchman Tom van Groeningen (1948) of the extraordinary masks from the Kullu Valley in the State of Himachal Pradesh in North-West India. Van Groeningen is not an average collector of tribal art. He chooses on the basis of beauty and provenance and focuses on the stories and people behind the masks. He puts the objects into the context of the religious and cultural settings of the region in India. ‘All my masks have danced,’ he says with a twinkling in his eye. What drives Van Groeningen? How did his collection grow? What makes his masks so appealing to the imagination? These are the questions that are answered in this rich publication.

(ISBN 97890 79700 00 4, 112 pp., 220x320 mm, full colour, sewn, hardcover) 0 1 2

Interview with the author here