“Matter(s) of relations : current analyses of Pacific rituals”

Convenors : Pascale Bonnemère (CNRS-CREDO) and Sandra Revolon (AMU-CREDO)

7 April 2014, 14h00-17h45 8 April 2014, 9h45-17h30

CREDO, Aix-Marseille Université, Campus Saint-Charles (Bâtiment LSH), Marseille

Monday 7 April 2014

14h00-14h30 : Introduction

PROGRAM

14h30-15h30 : Pascale Bonnemère (CNRS, CREDO, Marseille)

A relational approach to the Ankave-Anga life-cycle rituals (Papua New Guinea)

15h30-15h45 : Coffee Break
15h45-16h45 : Sandra Revolon (Aix-Marseille University, CREDO, Marseille)

Transforming relations: From perception to action (Aorigi, Solomon Islands).

16h45-17h45 : Borut Telban (Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubjana)
Transforming relations in death rituals (Karawari-speaking people, Papua New Guinea)

Tuesday 8 April 2014
9h45-10h45 : Florence Brunois (CNRS, LAS, Paris)

Relations to existing beings in the advent of Kasua initiates (Papua New Guinea)

10h45-11h : Coffee break 11h-12h00 : James Leach (CNRS, CREDO, Marseille)

Visibility and transformation in the Reite life-cycle (Papua New Guinea)

12h00-13h30 : Lunch on site

13h30-14h30 : Jessica de Largy Healy (Musée du quai Branly, Paris)

And this painting becomes his body for life: Perspectives on the relational materiality of images in northern Australia.

14h30-15h30 : Ludovic Coupaye (University College London)

Kutapmu & Kurabu : ceremonial houses and yam mounds in Nyamikum (East Sepik Province, PNG)

15h30-15h45 : Coffee break

15h45-16h45 : Denis Monnerie (University of Strasbourg)

The conditions of the ritual/ceremonial transformations of relations: Articulations of "everyday" life and ceremonial times. A view from Northern Hoot ma Whaap, Kanaky New Caledonia

16h45-17h30 : General discussion.