De l’adieu aux choses au retour des ancêtres. La remise par la France des têtes māori à la Nouvelle-Zélande

Can we consider māori mummified tattooed heads dating from the eighteenth century as “things”? How museum objects are transformed in ancestral remains? Mélanie Roustan follows the physical and symbolic trajectory of the “māori heads” (toi moko) given to New Zealand after being kept for several centu...

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Main Author: Mélanie Roustan
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Éditions de la Sorbonne 2014-11-01
Series:Socio-anthropologie
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/socio-anthropologie/2345