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AbstractThe international cultural exchanges field is difficult to study. It is situated at the crossing point of various disciplinary domains and seems to be reluctant to any “ panoptical ” observation or analysis. But a communicational approach to some historical exchanges can help researchers avoid methodological problems. Thanks to the study of various documents related to French producer André Antoine's foreign experience between the 19th and the 20th centuries, it is possible to better understand the role played by the export of theatrical productions in the economy of performing arts. This role reaches financial, symbolic, media and artistic fields. Above all, it's the heterogeneousness of these exchange processes which is noticed. They fall under two categories : that of circulation and of translation.
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AbstractThis article outlines the fieldwork carried out in 2006 by Bernard Genest (ministère de la Culture et des communications in Québec) and Jean Simard (Société québécoise d'ethnologie) in Belgium which aimed to gather information about immaterial cultural heritage. Belgium is one of the first European countries to create a legislative tool (Décret relatif aux biens culturels mobiliers et au patrimoine immatérielde la Communauté française) and programs to ensure the preservation, promotion and development of immaterial heritage. It has also been recognised by Unesco for two events as masterpieces of oral and intangible heritage for humanity, the Carnaval de Binche (2003) and the Géants et dragons processionnels (2005). Québec is pursuing a reflection on the idea of immaterial heritage and has begun an inventory programme that draws attention to several countries around the world. By constantly referring to Québec, the author outlines how in his view the Belgium experience can be a source of inspiration for other countries that recognize the importance of their immaterial cultural heritage in regards to their identity and diversity.
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AbstractWe lack sufficient data to determine if the intensification and diversification of the uses of comme (English : like) by French Canadian adolescents is a passing fashion or a real change in the functioning of markers of approximation in Canadian French. I compare the use of comme in a corpus of interviews with adolescents and adults in the francophone community of South-Eastern New Brunswick with a view to the intensity of usage, the distribution of the operator in discourse, the functions that it fulfills and its position in the sentence. This empirical study raises questions about the evolution of language behavior within and between generations.
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AbstractIn this article, the author examines the temporal dimensions of suicide by taking into account the multiple existing approaches—circadian physiology, psychiatric or sociological epidemiology of suicide—however promoting a socio-anthropological perspective. From this perspective, suicide is examined as a social phenomenon inscribed in time. By beginning with a concern that is characteristic of anthropology of time, knowingly the relation between time of nature and time of society, the author addresses a key issue of the study of suicide already elaborated by Durkheim, in the relation between change that is a basic expression of the passage of time and suicide. After presenting different scientific contributions on the subject, the author proposes an hypothesis allowing integration of the influence of time related to natural phenomenon (cosmobiological rhythms) and the relation of time to social phenomenon (politico-economic rhythms) in relation with suicide and this, according to Gabennesch's theory of “failed promises.”
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AbstractIn the fall of 1911, representatives of the Montreal Jewish elite applied to Quebec authorities for the incorporation of a charitable institution that they had created, the Hebrew Free Loan Association of Montreal. They were immediately confronted by the stereotype of the Jewish loan shark. The founding of this society reveals some of the tensions experienced by the Montreal Jewish community during this peak period of mass migration at the beginning of the 20th Century. The initiatives of its founders and the reactions they stirred up also reveal the complexity of the relationship that existed between the Jewish minority and various components of Quebec society at a time when anti-Semitism, in Quebec as elsewhere, was becoming more vocal. Their efforts to obtain the incorporation of the Hebrew Free Loan Association, as well as to reject the social identity that was being imposed on them, shed light on both the power and the vulnerability of the Jewish elite and on the crucial role it played in mediation.
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Considering the gap between political time and memory processes on the one hand, and on the other the questioning of relations between official memory policies and ordinary representations of the past, this paper will analyse the emergence, or not, in German society of a memory of the lost homelands. A kind of memory that is conducive to exchanges with the neighbours, encouraging mutual understanding, and helping the re-appropriation of shared pasts, thus leading to a more favourable attitude towards a common European future. Based on a body of contemporary literary works that deals with heritage trips to the territories from which Germans have been expelled after WWII, this paper aims at studying the stories of passing the borders and of (re)discovering the lost Heimat in the East. It proposes to examine the representations of space conveyed by those narratives, and their relation to older narratives such as that of « flight and expulsion ». The hypothesis emerging from this article is that, despite a shared history of violence, the active confrontation with today's realities of the lost Heimat enhances the capacity to overcome a self-centred construction of memory and of the sufferings Germans endured during WWII. As a consequence, it becomes possible to reconsider the complexity of the events, and to go beyond a limited, regional truth, hence inscribing them in a wider historical frame.
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When they met in 1958, Gaston Miron and Henri Pichette may have sensed that their friendship would last a lifetime. What they could not have foreseen were the difficulties they would face as they attempted to disseminate their respective works on each side of the ocean. What ideological and political representations did this friendship go through? What part did it play in the poetic evolution of Miron and Pichette? The unpublished correspondence of the two writers provides us with privileged access to the premises of the Quebec poet's activist years. More generally, it offers a first portrait of a Franco-Québécois relationship, the friendship between two of the twentieth century's greatest poets.