Traditional Cultures-Cultures Traditionnelles
Kushti: the clay wrestlers
At Kolhapur, in the capital of a former Mahratta princely state, survives a unique and ancient form of wrestling, almost two thousand years old. Kushti is more a moral and spiritual bout than a corporal exercise.
Photos by Bruno Morandi/LightMediation Text by Carisse Busquet
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The Alleys of Magic…The vanishing act…
The colourful world of the New-Delhi magicians, dancers and puppeteers whose way of life may soon be gone for ever.
Photographs by Arindam Mukherjee/LightMediation Text by Sudhiti Naskar
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Bali – An ever-flowing Faith
For centuries, the Balinese have strongly held on to their Hindu faith despite being a part of Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world. With a dedication to their traditional culture, desa adat, as well as being buoyed by an inherent sense of joy, the people of Bali have found the means to embrace their past while turning towards a promising future.
Photos by Remi Benali/LightMediation Text by Heather Robinson
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Fishing in the veins
On the island of Rodrigues, located at the east of Mauritius, time stopped and the beauty of the area that matched the tranquility and the friendliness of the population. Fishing, major activity is a lifestyle that is practiced mainly by sailing, small white confetti furrowing the lagoon, which is twice the size of the island surface. Overview of a Sea People endangered …
Photos and text by Julien Girardot/LightMediation
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An Amerindian revival
Almost 20 years ago, the American continent was celebrating the discovery of their continent with great pride.
Armed only with statements, slogans and passion against a conquest and colonisation they rejected in bulk, Amerindians of both North and South of the continent shouted their frustration at once, a scream that reached each and single one protest movement of today’s population ready for a comeback.
Photos by David Ducoin/LightMediation Text by Julie Baudin
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Mongolia, Steppe by Steppe
We are right in the heart of Mongolia, an immense steppe that covers an area as great as Germany, Italy and France together. For a population of 2.5 million, the country counts a livestock population of more than 25 million, called the five muzzles: sheep, goats,cows and yaks, camels and, of course, horses. This latter is omnipresent in the life of the Mongolians since centuries ago when their ancestors, the Hunnu (Attila…), struck fear into half the world. Today, the country is slowly opening up to tourism. It is indisputably the last nomad country where more than half the population lives on the steppe and the traveler can mix with this ancestral way of life in harmony with a strong nature.
Photos and text ©Bruno Morandi/LightMediation
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Nirmala’s last life
Nirmala has dedicated her life to Bahubali, one of the holy saints of Jaïnism.This young lady has chosen this festival of the Great Unction to profess her religious vows.From now on, she aspires only for one thing, to be reincarnated as a man so as to be able to attain the complete detachment and reach nirvana.
Photos by Frédéric Soltan/LightMediation Text by Dominique Rabotteau
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Les Hommes plumes
Au coeur géographique de l’Asie, l’Arunachal Pradesh est sans doute l’état le moins connu et le plus mystérieux de l’Inde. Il préserve, outre d’immenses forêts et une grande biodiversité, des populations tribales longtemps restées à l’écart des axes commerciaux et qui ont su préserver artisanats et traditions millénaires malgré une évangélisation massive.
Photos et texte de Jean-Baptiste Rabouan/LightMediation
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The Carnivals of Sardinia
Chaotic cavalcades, parades of enigmatic masks, age-old role-playing: in the days of globalization, the Sardinians keep their traditions alive with enthusiasm.
Photos and text by Bruno Morandi/LightMediation
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The painted devils of the Holy week
For the Coras, a small indigenous people that inhabit the rugged canyons of the Sierra del Nayar on the the Sierra Madre Occidental, the Judea Cora, the less known Holy Week of Mexico, is the most important religious ceremony of the year.
Photos and text by Enrico Martino/LightMediation
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