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This article explores the challenges and opportunities for maintaining and revitalizing Indigenous cultural heritage in industrialized landscapes, in particular the waterways transformed by hydropower development. The analysis is based on collaborative research with the Pekuakamiulnuatsh (Mashteuiatsh, Quebec). Despite floods, diversions, relocations and loss of access to various sites of cultural and spiritual importance on the Péribonka River, many community members retain a keen sense of the nature of their heritage in these transformed environments and want to maintain its transmission. It is because a large part of this heritage is intangible that the transformation of cultural sites does not remove them from the territorial vision of the bearers of cultures. By focusing on local knowledge about the “Katimaweshu”, we will analyze the importance of developing mechanisms for the recognition and protection of Indigenous heritage places that are both aligned with international frameworks (in particular that of UNESCO), while reflecting the ontology of land users. The capacity of Indigenous peoples to promote and protect their heritage is modulated not only by the colonial past but also by the pressures linked to the industrial development which continues in their territories. This article postulates that the intangible aspects of Indigenous heritage represent an opportunity for its revitalization in transformed environments. Finally, it suggests avenues to better define and frame the revitalization, as well as the transmission of this type of heritage – particularly in places where this heritage no longer exists, according to external observers, while it endures in intergenerational memory.
Keywords: Pekuakamiulnuatsh, rivière Péribonka, développement hydroélectrique, patrimoine intangible, sites sacrés
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AbstractAn age-old science, medicine has had to follow in the steps of History for millenniums. Little wonder, then, if medical language and, hence, terminology has always been influenced, over the years, by its successive users. The medical translator is bound to realize that the medical sociolect, far from feeding on an exact and objective terminology, is in fact prey to synchronic as well as diachronic instability.
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This bibliography contains over 150 references to articles, books and theses from social sciences and the humanities relating explicitly feminism with the notion of postmodernism.
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Using a short excerpt from la Vie mode d'emploi, this article describes the inextricable intertexture of erotic and biographical elements specific to Perec's writing. By a slight mishandling of the text and its recasting in homomorphic form, a generalized interchange of signifiers is obtained that is not in the least wild, but altogether controlled.