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SANSARI. THE GODDESS AND THE CORONA IN HIMALAYA

End of March 2020. In a village in Nepal, affected like the rest of the country - and the world - by containment, news of the virus spreads. Some villagers decide to advance the rite to Sansari, goddess of epidemics, adapting it to the circumstances of the moment. Relationship with politics, relationship with nature, the place of the stranger, respect for tradition and adaptation to change, human and divine responsibility, rumour and learned discourse... As elsewhere, they look for what to think and what to do, and cobble together uncertain answers. This is an opportunity to discover other reflections on the current crisis linked to the virus, a shifted viewpoint, which nevertheless strangely echoes what is said and done in other parts of the world that the current epidemic has helped to make ever more global.

Documentary film by Grégoire Schlemmer, ethnologist, research fellow at the IRD, member of the Urmis.

Evenings on the Roof of the World
Juin 2020

Our next Roof of the World party will take place on,

jeudi 11 juin 2020 à 18 h 00, always at 6 rue Visconti.

We will screen a film on Professor Roger Heim presenting "Les champignons sacrés",
a documentary presented by Jean Thevenot at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in relation to the work of Robert Gordon Wasson on the Indian Soma.

Evening on reservation (Reservation) ; ARCH members having priority.

Free admission

Interview of Brigitte Steinmann

Find below the interview of Brigitte Steinmann, honorary member of the association, conducted by Srizu Bajracharya for the Kathmandu Post.

‘Studying culture helps to understand the aesthetic feeling of a society’

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Evening conference and show at the Tibet Museum of Gruyères

David C. Andolfatto, archaeologist and vice-president of the association will speak at the Tibet Museum of Gruyères on Saturday 21 March 2020 on "Central-Himalayan masterpieces at the Tibet Museum"..

His intervention will be followed by songs, music and dances from Tibet by Tshering Wangdu.

Download the program of the evening.

THE CHEPANG OF NEPAL

Adrien Viel, vice-president of the association, will speak on Tuesday 25 February 2020 at 18H00 at the Grand Salon de la Maison de l'Asie, 22 avenue du Président Wilson, 75016 PARIS, on the theme "The Asian House":

The Ancestors of the Underworld: Myths and Beliefs of the Chepang of Nepal

Hoping for many of you for this event.