351. Décorer les dents, modifier les crânes. Un art du paraître dans l’Amérique précolombienne ?
- Author
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Jérôme Thomas, Institut de Recherche Intersite Études Culturelles (Montpellier) (IRIEC), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM), Organisés par la métropole Nice Côte d'Azur et le laboratoire du CEPAM UMR 7264, Hala ALARASHI, and Rosa Maria DESSÌ
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Dentaire et décoration ,Amérique ,social representations ,America ,head shaping ,cosmos ,[SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology ,[SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History ,Dental and decoration ,représentations sociales ,modelage de la tête ,[SHS.RELIG]Humanities and Social Sciences/Religions - Abstract
International audience; In 1937, Maurice Leenhardt made this statement in Gens de la Grande Terre : “Adornment and modifications of the body arethe most subtle aesthetic means by which man expresses complexes or affirms states that his word cannot formulate”. Indeed, there is no society in which the body is left in the raw state. It carries a strong symbolic burden and occupies a decisive place in the expression of identity and in social communication. Ornament has significance as much as it adorns and all these ways of ornamenting the body are necessary and participate in human expression. But beyond the aesthetic aspect, being the primary role of adornments in building one’s identity and in socialization, the modified body weaves links with the cosmos. We thus ask this question : why and in what way regulate its appearance by manipulating the body ? To answer this question, we take the example of modification by cranial deformation and dental in the Mesoamerican and South American regions up to modern times.
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- 2019