International audienceThrough an ethnographical inquiry in the Djuka, Saramaka and Aluku tribes of French Guyana, this study is about understanding the social meanings and functions of the practice of pirogue with paddles in the Bushinengés of French Guyana. This small crafts used to play an important role in the group social functions: carriage of goods, transportation of people, fishing, hunting and gathering, family linkage, initiation rite for the learning of techniques for the youngest or games for children and adults (races). Yet, throughout the times, the pirogue has been transformed through economic-based mutations until the mid-20th century (wood carriage – mid-19th century; gold washing – late 19th century), when the use, the sail...
This study of two Amerindian systems of swidden cultivation in the Guyana neo-tropical forest intend...
Polay, Uwa : dancing among the Kalina and the Wayãpi. Towards an ethnography of dance in native Amaz...
New Guinea is the most linguistically diverse region in the world. There are over 1000 languages fou...
Basketry as a traditional handicraft is a very important activity in French Guyana. Among Amerindian...
Background: Palikur Amerindians live in the eastern part of French Guiana which is undergoing deep-s...
Background: Palikur Amerindians live in the eastern part of French Guiana which is undergoing deep-s...
The current context of modernity which lives the Amerindian societies of French Guyana infers indisp...
On the Maroni river, natural border between French Guyana and the Surinam, canoes tied to the river ...
The article provides a preliminary account of the canoes made and used by the Piro (Yine) people of ...
International audienceThe early human occupation of the Antilles was based on the manufacture and us...
This paper presents a case study of creolo shifting cultivation in French Guyana. It shows ecologica...
This paper describes how the Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea used to construct their big sea...
AbstractThe Maroon Blacks aluku (Boni), descendants of the slaves who escaped the Dutch plantations ...
This thesis is a study of the role of material forms as mediators of cross-cultural encounters in th...
A series of comparative studies is suggested, focused on perceptions of outrigger canoes, and aimed ...
This study of two Amerindian systems of swidden cultivation in the Guyana neo-tropical forest intend...
Polay, Uwa : dancing among the Kalina and the Wayãpi. Towards an ethnography of dance in native Amaz...
New Guinea is the most linguistically diverse region in the world. There are over 1000 languages fou...
Basketry as a traditional handicraft is a very important activity in French Guyana. Among Amerindian...
Background: Palikur Amerindians live in the eastern part of French Guiana which is undergoing deep-s...
Background: Palikur Amerindians live in the eastern part of French Guiana which is undergoing deep-s...
The current context of modernity which lives the Amerindian societies of French Guyana infers indisp...
On the Maroni river, natural border between French Guyana and the Surinam, canoes tied to the river ...
The article provides a preliminary account of the canoes made and used by the Piro (Yine) people of ...
International audienceThe early human occupation of the Antilles was based on the manufacture and us...
This paper presents a case study of creolo shifting cultivation in French Guyana. It shows ecologica...
This paper describes how the Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea used to construct their big sea...
AbstractThe Maroon Blacks aluku (Boni), descendants of the slaves who escaped the Dutch plantations ...
This thesis is a study of the role of material forms as mediators of cross-cultural encounters in th...
A series of comparative studies is suggested, focused on perceptions of outrigger canoes, and aimed ...
This study of two Amerindian systems of swidden cultivation in the Guyana neo-tropical forest intend...
Polay, Uwa : dancing among the Kalina and the Wayãpi. Towards an ethnography of dance in native Amaz...
New Guinea is the most linguistically diverse region in the world. There are over 1000 languages fou...