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This article argues that stories can travel great distances over long periods of time and can serve as vehicles to communicate messages across cultures. It traces the particular Anishinaabe sacred story (aansookaan) about the culture hero Nene-bush travelling through the air holding on to a stick carried between the beaks of two geese, discovering that its origins lie in South Asia. Appearing in the Buddhist Jātakas and the Sanskrit Pañchatantra of c. 300 BCE ‒ 500 CE as a story about a turtle who could not stop talking, it spread throughout the globe. It made its way to the Great Lakes by the mid-eighteenth century through medieval Persia to early modern France and Jean de La Fontaine's circle, and then came to North America with fur traders or missionaries, before being shared with Anishinaabeg.
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This article examines the representation of Chinese women in the narratives of European ambassadors from the 17th and 18th centuries. Based first on Jehan Nieuhoff's testimony during the 1655 Dutch Embassy and second on Sir George Staunton's narrative of the British Embassy led by Lord Macartney from 1792 to 1794, the text examines representations of beauty as well as gender constructions as it argues that perceptions toward Chinese women were the outcome of the overall context of the representation of China at that time, more precisely the passage from Sinophilia to Sinophobia.
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Céline Minard's novel Le dernier monde distinguishes itself in many ways from other works that explicitly question memory through the ethnological or historical investigation of trauma memories, of the archival imagery, etc. Such works allowed showing how the contemporary French literature problematizes the formatting and mediation of the past, whether personal or collective. In this post-apocalyptic fiction, Jaume Roiq Stevens is the lone survivor of an unexplained catastrophe that decimated humanity but preserved all other forms of life. The issue of memory is therefore linked to the forgetting of history and humankind. Following the various stages of Stevens's quest, we will see how the last human being manages to free himself from the weight of a pathological memory in order to survive the extinction of his species.
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Between the two world wars, photography made a notable appearance in children's books, from picture books to Sunday school books. A few travelogues illustrated with photographs began to appear, including Hors du nid, by Charles ab der Halden, in 1934. It was illustrated by the photographer Laure Albin Guillot, a major figure in interwar photography. This article sets out to identify the genre of this work, which is somewhere between a school novel, a travelogue and a portrait of a country. It examines how photographs contribute to the genre and analyses the collaboration between words and photographic illustrations.
Keywords: Roman scolaire, roman du tour, portrait de pays, littérature jeunesse, photographie, School novel, tour novel, country portrait, children's literature, photography
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In our more than ever divided, fragmented, devastated world, going so far as to attack the earth, its vital base, could ecosophy help human beings to return to what unites them, their common belonging to the land that welcomes them and that they inhabit ?Trying to answer this question, I suggest to rely on Michel Maffesoli's postulate stipulating that the ecosophical values that he sees emerging in the new post-modern era are found in traditional cultures ; and to experience this bond by exploring the values of a traditional community whose culture is still alive, Buryatia (Siberia). We will be accompanied, implicitly, by the thought of Edgar Morin, a researcher who has crossed the century without anything interrupting his research, seeking, like Maffesoli, to see in what emerges signs of hope for the future world.
Keywords: écoformation, écosophie, écologie, Bouriatie, éducation tout au long de la vie, nature, eco-training, ecosophy, ecology, Buryatia, lifelong learning