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Maurice Godelier, the first ethnologist to have met the Baruya people of Papua New Guinea, describes his working methods and personal relationships with the Baruya.

In the Northern and Eastern regions of Chad, in Zarawa, Bideyat and Goranes breeders groups, blacksmiths are considered as a lower caste. They practice their art and also other artisanal techniques (wood and leather work), even music.

The feast of the Epiphany in Ethiopia, in Addis Alem, commemorating Christ's baptism in the Jordan.

Françoise Héritier, an anthropologist, develops her thoughts concerning the organization of the hierarchical relations between sexes, and its origins. From her researches about relationship, she emphasises the multiple rules of alliances and filiations invented by societies.

Winner of the CNRS Gold Medal in 2001, anthropologist Maurice Godelier shares some aspects of his activities, his life, and his research. First he takes us on a field trip to the Baruya of Papua-New Guinea, among whom he worked for seven years, describing his research on kinship ties and the initiation ceremonies of the various age groups. He leads a seminar for the EHESS (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales). He impresses on his students the need to develop a true scientific…

Antoine Spire interviews Maurice Godelier, an anthropologist, a former director of the CNRS department of Humanities and Society and the EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) director of studies. He was honoured by the CNRS Gold medal in 2001.

C'est dans la région des Hauts Plateaux, au centre du Vietnam, que vivent « les Montagnards », une vingtaine d'ethnies qui pratiquent le jeu de gong. Cet instrument à percussion est présent dans tous les rituels et festivités qui accompagnent la vie du village. Décrit depuis deux siècles par des explorateurs, des ethnologues et des historiens de tous pays, le gong n'est pas seulement un instrument de musique, mais aussi un objet complexe et pluriel qui participe de l'expression de la culture de…

During several years of ethnographic researches on the Amazonian Indians, the Achuar, Philippe Descola, the laureate of the 2012 Gold Medal of the CNRS, studied the relationship between human beings and nature. He gradually extended his thought to other societies and redefined our own relationship with nature and with the world.

Philippe Descola, an anthropologist and the laureate of the 2012 Gold Medal of the CNRS, filmed in the greenhouses of the Botanical Garden of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, talks about the Amazon rainforest, which is almost an artificial ecosystem, and about the different perception Achuar Indians have. They consider this forest as a garden, a space transformed by spirits.