If social life is guided by a variety of values, sometimes conflicting, they become visible in the things that people produce, exchange and collect. How is the diversity of values diminished in the heterogeneity of the subject matter in order to give it a social consistency? How does the materiality...

Semiotic research in Luxembourg is developed within the French Language and Literature Laboratory of the University of Luxembourg, led by Marion Colas-Blaise. The main project currently covering the research of the members of the Laboratoire is entitled “Cultural Media in Luxembourg” and focuses on...

Laurence Bernard-Pradelle and Claire Lechevalier, Dir. ISBN: 978-2-84050-811-3. Article written in collaboration with Laurence Bernard-Pradelle. At the dawn of the Quattrocento in Florence, there is an undeniable renewal of Greek learning and knowledge of Greek literature, at the same time as a brea...

The social network can be regarded as a technical device in that it combines both technical agreements for the production of content or the construction of new forms of sociality, and social agreements which enable users to leave their footprint on the social network in question and extract contextu...

This essay intends to point out the conjunction between three thematic areas that the research studies and the actors on the ground would both exclude : young people, rural area, hobbies and cultural practices. Our issue is to understand how both cultural practices of rural youth and the recompositi...

Since the end of the nineteenth century, in its desire to equate the Amerindian people of Mapuche with its republican ideology of liberal tradition, the Argentinian state has led to their invisibilisation rather than to their disappearance. Thus, in a context where ‘Argentinian national identity’ ha...

The aim of this article is to present a conceptual framework to analyse the challenges of heritage for economic development and thus to manage imbalances that may arise at national and international level. A heritage strategy should focus on the human well-being of a population, but it would be unre...

Ageing has intensified in recent decades, leading to a significant change in the relationship between age groups and genders. This is the result of both a secular decline in fertility and birth rates, but most importantly, for the recent period, the marked decline in mortality at high ages, which tr...

Carole Bisenius-Penin (dir.) — Residence of authors, literary creation and cultural mediations (1) Communication Issues, Series 24/2015, Nancy Universities — Publishing Universitaires de Lorraine, 170 p., EUR 20. ISBN: 9782814302280 as a result of interdisciplinary and cross-border cooperation, this...

this thesis focuses on the entire Mexican diplomatic carteggio: the administrative (or written) letters sent from Florence and those drafted by Machiavel during his missions outside the city. This correspondence reflects the cultural practices of writing and all the sociolinguistic transformations t...

The fond Jean-René Brutsch’s archives, based in Defap at Paris, inspired this study carried out on transculturation in Cameroonian missionary context. The analysis of this concept leads to cross and to renew views on diverse modalities and forms of religiosity, which generated from the meeting betwe...

International audience Les régions de culture du quinoa au Chili partagent certains traits communs à savoir la marginalité des paysans, leur isolement culturel et géographique et, la grande distance aux marchés. On note aujourd'hui une prise de conscience croissante au niveau mondial tant de l'impor...

“S'il y a quelque chose qui revient de droit à l'anthropologie, ce n'est pas la tâche d'expliquer le monde d'autrui, mais bien celle de multiplier notre monde”Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (2009)Une nomade pas comme les autres…Cet ouvrage est dédié à notre collègue et amie, Claudine Karlin. Ingénieure...

Information: Responsible for Workshop 3 “Translation and Plurilingualism”: Estelle Variot (lecturer), Gérard Gomez (lecturer), Valerie Rusu (Professor Emerite); Drafting Committee: Estelle Variot, Gérard Gomez, Valerie Rusu; layout of Volume 14 (14/1-2/Annexes-CDRom): E. Variot; persons responsible...

The searches of Campu Stefanu’s Bronze Age Site were carried out between 2005 and 2011. They concerned a house built during the old Bronze age and a natural shelter. This shelter revealed a stratigraphy extending from messolithic to Fer age. In its levels at the end of the average Bronze, the elemen...

International audience Cette communication se proposera de mettre en perspective les traitements du genre dans trois films réalisés par Álex de la Iglesia dans les années 2000 : La comunidad (2000), Crimen ferpecto (2004) et Balada triste de trompeta (2011). Les trois œuvres interrogent les rapports...

Even if, according to psychiatrist Jacques Hassoun "Judaism is not a funeral religion?", the wide Jewish world is not, however, restricted to only the religious aspects, and its musical currents are not only attached to liturgy. Dealing with Jewish cultures (insisting on the plural) allows us to tak...

In this PhD, the “graffiti” refers negatively to every practice of wall/mural inscription, which contributes to degrade the “aesthetic order of a city produced by the public authorities. This expression encompasses both the notion of order, that is the political power which is troubled by any graffi...

Facing the evolution of international trade and the development of intellectual proper ty trade between companies from different backgrounds, contractual model readjustments and a reordering of dispute resolution systems seems unavoidable. The unsettled legal status of secret knowledge in China and...

On the basis of the articles in this issue, this final article seeks to reposition the issue of the territory and the city by reconsidering, on the one hand, the definition of cultural policies and, on the other, the involvement of the various forms of cultural and artistic mediation.

Since the XIX ‘sup’ e ‘/sup’ century, almost 450 collective seedlings have been discovered in the Paris Basin, the chronology of which, as clarified by recent research, lies between the end of the mean Nolithic and the beginning of the age of Bronze, the last centuries of the 4th ‘sup’/sup’ millenni...

based on a methodology borrowed from ethnology and geography (field surveys, participating observations, acquisition of materials and qualitative and quantitative data, etc.), this article focuses on fishing practices for European eel on two European maritime facades: the French Atlantic and the Ger...

This book focuses on ‘troops’, ‘companies’, ‘collective’, etc., regardless of how these collective entities for the production of performances refer to themselves or are designated. More specifically, it looks at the different ways in which they organise themselves to create works, while opening the...

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Version underword before editor’s corrections, saved in pdf. Facts, information exchanges are subject to the constraint that leads them to extract them from their cultural frameworks in order to give them a form that is intended to be universal. However, it is clearly impossible to neutralise the vi...