Traditional Cultures-Cultures Traditionnelles

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.

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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.

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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.

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Mustang: the secret kingdom of the Himalayas

The Mustang is not only a fiery, American horse. It is also the name of a minuscule kingdom wedged between Nepal and Tibet.A forgotten State where the heir to a several hundred-year-old dynasty reigns. A journey back in time in the realm of the king Jigme Dorje Tandul…

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Enfances du monde

Ces photos sont un hommage aux enfants des sociétés traditionnelles, à leur gaieté et à leur joie de vivre qui contrastent avec les rigueurs bien réelles de leur existence. Les images de sont le fruit de 20 ans de rencontres heureuses, le témoignage d’un correspondant de paix.

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Reprieved Heritage

Pakistan shelters one of the richest rock art galleries in the world. An unrecognized heritage living its lats moments.

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The feathered men’s waltz

Every year, the Highlands tribes of Papua New Guinea fight peacefully in great tribal « jousts » where each one tries to outdo in beauty the other with their feathered costumes. A secular art still alive in spite of the growing influence of the modern world.

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Tarahumaras, Indian runners

50,000 or so, Tarahumara minority people have passively resisted the pressures of the outside world for centuries already. They live a traditional life style in cave type dwellings or on isolated farms with neither electricity nor running water. This more surprisingly takes place only a few hundred miles from the US border.

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The Christian treasures of lake Tana

Isolated from the rest of the world, the Christian priests and monks look after, since XVth century, an extremely valuable treasure: a collection of illustrated manuscripts, religiously stored in the monasteries built onthe islands of lake Tana, in Ethiopia.

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In Gurus we trust. by Marc Wattrelot

« - In Gurus We Trust- story start from an interrogation. How can I understand India without approached its mystic and its spirituality? »

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