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Infinite repertoire : on dance and urban possibility in postsocialist Guinea
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ISBN: 9780226762845 022676284X 9780226781020 022678102X Year: 2021 Publisher: Chicago The University of Chicago Press

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"In this energetic ethnography, anthropologist Adrienne J. Cohen traces the socialist political history that undergirds the practice of stage dance, or "ballet" in Guinea and the rise of private troupes in postsocialist Conakry. Guinean ballet goes hand in hand with state power, as the socialist state demands loyalty, but also depends on the sincerity and spontaneity of artists' performances to win the hearts and minds of spectators. Cohen shows how, decades after the death of dictator Sékou Touré, ballet continues to command the attention of Guinean youth as an experience of both loss and liberation for practitioners. Young artists perform and comment on a postsocialist urban lifeworld through improvisational dance and semiotic framing. By concentrating on a playful emerging urban lexicon of dance moves and practices and the heated intergenerational debates they spark, we see how dancers navigate-through embodied and verbal discourse-major social and economic transformations in post-revolutionary Conakry. Infinite Repertoire expands our understanding of the connection between aesthetics, affect, magic, and politics in Guinea, even as it complicates any simple dichotomy between authoritarianism and creative freedom"--


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Losing culture
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ISBN: 1978815379 9781978815377 9781978815353 1978815352 9781978815360 1978815360 9781978815391 1978815395 Year: 2020 Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey

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We’re losing our culture… our heritage… our traditions… everything is being swept away. Such sentiments get echoed around the world, from aging Trump supporters in West Virginia to young villagers in West Africa. But what is triggering this sense of cultural loss, and to what ends does this rhetoric get deployed? To answer these questions, anthropologist David Berliner travels around the world, from Guinea-Conakry, where globalization affects the traditional patriarchal structure of cultural transmission, to Laos, where foreign UNESCO experts have become self-appointed saviors of the nation’s cultural heritage. He also embarks on a voyage of critical self-exploration, reflecting on how anthropologists handle their own sense of cultural alienation while becoming deeply embedded in other cultures. This leads into a larger examination of how and why we experience exonostalgia, a longing for vanished cultural heydays we never directly experienced. Losing Culture provides a nuanced analysis of these phenomena, addressing why intergenerational cultural transmission is vital to humans, yet also considering how efforts to preserve disappearing cultures are sometimes misguided or even reactionary. Blending anthropological theory with vivid case studies, this book teaches us how to appreciate the multitudes of different ways we might understand loss, memory, transmission, and heritage.


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Architecture coloniale et patrimoine : expériences européennes
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ISBN: 2850568244 9782850568244 Year: 2005 Publisher: Paris: Somogy, Institut national du Patrimoine,

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Ce sont les historiens qui, les premiers, se sont intéressés à la question de la culture coloniale. Leurs travaux ont contribué à cerner la notion, et à l'apprivoiser. Les historiens de l'architecture, ensuite, ont porté leur intérêt sur des œuvres qui avaient été construites sous un régime réglementaire plus souple qu'en métropole, permettant ainsi aux architectes de faire de ces vastes territoires un champ d'expérimentation inespéré. La nécessité de bâtir dans un milieu qui leur était étranger, d'utiliser des matériaux nouveaux et de prendre en compte des contraintes climatiques particulières a stimulé l'imagination des architectes et des ingénieurs. C'est le cas de la maison tropicale de Prouvé et Herbé, destinée au Niger. Les solutions retenues outre-mer ont nourri, en retour, les projets des architectes français en métropole, au moment où le territoire connaissait, depuis le début des années 1960, un développement urbanistique sans précédent. Le débat qui s'est engagé entre les participants lors de la table ronde, organisée à Paris par l'Institut national du patrimoine du 17 au 19 septembre 2003, et le choix final du titre de la présente publication prouvent que le sujet est encore sensible plus de quarante années après le mouvement de décolonisation des anciens territoires français. (quatrième de couverture)

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