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Sixth Conference of the
European Society for Oceanists (ESfO)
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Pacific Challenges: Questioning concepts, rethinking conflicts
Marseille (France), 6-8 July 2005
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01: Colonial grievances info | papers
02: Reshaping Indigenous worlds info | papers
03: Dynamics of Pacific Religiosity info | papers
04: Mapping Oceania info | papers
05: Rethinking political conflicts, beyond ethnicity info | papers
06: Cultural festivals info | papers
07: Enchantments of technology info | papers
08: Ownership in effect info | papers
09: Spiritual material info | papers
10: Endangered Languages info | papers
11: Transculturation info | papers
12: New Caledonia in Oceania info | papers
13: Keynotes info | papers
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| id: | 6 | | Title: | Festivals and strategies of communication: cultural singularities in a dynamic network | | Number of papers: | 11 | | Organizers: | Glowczewski Barker, Barbara
(CNRS-LAS, Paris, France)
Henry, Rosita
(James Cook University, Townsville, Australia)
Langton, Marcia (Chair)
(Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia) | | Abstract: | Festivals, exhibitions and other events using indigenous performances, live or on film, are more and more popular and widespread; including "world music" stages, local association gatherings, Church meetings, and NGO, national and international celebrations. The media demand for a contextualization of this re-presentation of traditional cultures is confronted with many prejudices.The late analysis of the colonial human zoos is now facing this new wave of performances that the audience wants to be "authentic" when they rarely have the means to judge what nowadays "authenticity" is about. Invited Indigenous artists often have social and political priorities that audiences do not necessarily expect or even accept. Nevertheless on both sides there are questions about how to create new interactions, what images and messages to adapt and how to transmit them. What is the result of such procedures: does culture follow the logic of religious syncretism? Music fusion? Is it hybrid? Or is the mixing of content and shape producing a new "metissage", which maintains cultural singularities within a dynamic network? |
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