Abstract
"[...] a mask is not first what it represents but what it transforms, i.e. chooses not to represent. Like a myth, a mask denies as much as he claims; this is not just what he says or believes, but what he excludes. Claude Lévi-Strauss A ‘orientalist’ couple: Jane and Marcel Dieulafoy Jane Dieulafoy — an archaeologist, journalist, saltman and writer — are among the most renowned travellers of his time, ‘a charm heroin on the foot...