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This article looks at the evolution of representations of shamans in films, mainly documentaries and French-language films, since the 1990s.

Keywords: chamans, représentations, cinéma, documentaires, mondialisation, bwiti, iboga, ayahuasca, Gabon, Pérou, shamans, representations, cinema, documentaries, globalization, bwiti, iboga, ayahuasca, Gabon, Peru, lchamanes, representaciones, cine, documentales, mundialización bwiti, iboga, ayahuasca, Gabon, Perú

Agricultural policies aimed at developing crops that take into account local biodiversity remain marginal. To define what should be considered in the return to "local cereals" in response to climate change, we put into perspective the results of two interdisciplinary projects conducted in dry areas of Senegal and India. The first, located in the Senegalese Sahel, « Relier la diversité agricole à la qualité de l'alimentation par l'analyse sociale des pratiques féminines et de l'alimentation “(DIVA), aimed to analyze the impacts of rice intensification on agricultural and food biodiversity, and the second located in the dry zone of the Deccan (South India), "Accompagner l'adaptation de l'agriculture irriguée au changement climatique" (ATCHA), studied the adaptations of irrigated agriculture to climate change, 30 years after the Green Revolution (GR). The cross-sectional analysis was conducted through the lens of the irrigated rice and rainfed sorghum cereal pair, with a focus on women's activities related to these crops. This analysis revealed strong links between the agro-environmental consequences of the agricultural changes analyzed, their food translations and the cultural losses that result: the intensification of rice in the Senegal River Valley and of VR in India not only cause a decline in the agricultural biodiversity of local cereals, but also damage the adaptive capacities and nutritional quality of meals and the quality of life. Focusing on women's activities also highlights their own difficulties in maintaining agricultural and food diversity. Yet these cereal-based systems are "resilient" in terms of local varieties and associated knowledge, as evidenced by the return of the ‘millets system', Indian millets and sorghums marginalized by GR, promoted in some states of India under the impetus of socio-political movements in response to climate change.

Keywords: céréales locales, changements climatiques, pratiques féminines, nutrition, sorgho, riz, politiques agricoles, local cereals, climate change, nutrition, women practices, sorghum, rice agricultural policies

AbstractWhile the issue of establishing a missile defence capability in the Euro-Atlantic area was excluded from eu security debates, and left to bidding contests between Washington and some European capitals, it was nevertheless endorsed at the nato Lisbon Summit in November 2010. This course of action might come as a surprise in the light of the few cases of missile defence operational implementation in the United States. It might also raise questions about the technology architecture and the command. This article however provides an approach of missile defence as a technique of governance through the instruments, launched by the United States in the perspective of building technical alliances on the global scale.

Keywords: antimissile, Otan, États-Unis, Union européenne, technologie militaire, sociologie des techniques, alliances, nato, ballistic missile defense, United States, European Union, military technology, social construction of technology, alliances, antimisiles, OTAN, Estados Unidos, Unión Europea, tecnología militar, sociología de la técnicas, alianzas

Based on an ethnographic research, this article deals with youth involved in the world of graffiti from teenagehood to adulthood. Rather than considering this artistic practice only as an act of vandalism, this text focuses on the possible maturation inherent to graffiti in order to better understand the motivations of those young artists and the coherence of this culture.

AbstractThis article analyses the development of the only Dayak touristic center in the province of East Kalimantan,Tanjung Isuy, a village of the Benua' Ohong. It focuses also on the emergence of a regional identity in the province. During the New Order era (1966-1998), the administration actively promoted the Dayak culture as the main “touristic object” (obyek wisata) of East Kalimantan. The folklorisation of local Dayak cultures and the elaboration of touristic strategies were closely linked. In this perspective, the author suggests that the “touristification” of the Benua' can be interpretated both in terms of regional development and of “indonesianization” of a tribal, “primitive” culture. Paradoxically, the current revitalisation of the Benua' culture was produced by the reconstructed “authentic dayak image” that they are showing to the visitors, Westerners and Indonesians alike. This process raises several questions in terms of cultural identity for the Benua' themselves. If in the course of the process, they do have reasserted their ethnicity in the regional context, its development and effects lies outside their control.

Keywords: Guerreiro, tourisme, culture régionale, ethnicité, benua', Indonésie, Guerreiro, tourism, regional culture, ethnicity, Benua', Indonesia

Following the critical appreciation phase of classical geography by 1970s geographers, Vidal de la Blache's work was thoroughly re-examined. Reissues of his books and new publications on the history of the discipline made his work better known. This article proposes to revisit a little-known work by Vidal de la Blache, États et nations de l'Europe. Autour de la France, published in 1889. Regarding the history of geography, this work is interesting in more than one way. First, it allows us to grasp a form of conception of Europe, coming after the one developed in an original and significant way by Élisée Reclus. It also illustrates the author's own way of mixing history and geography before the pivotal empowerment of geography as its own discipline. Lastly, it provides a striking analysis of certain political facts.

Keywords: Histoire de la géographie, géographie historique, Europe, Vidal de la Blache, territoires, temporalités, History of geography, historical geography, Europe, Vidal de la Blache, territories, temporalities, Historia de la Geografía, Geografía histórica, Europa, Vidal de la Blache, territorios, temporalidades