From the Worship of Ancestor-Mediators to the Destruction of Their Statues?

Bernard Hours

From the Worship of Ancestor-Mediators to the Destruction of Their Statues?
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In Journal des anthropologues Volume 166-167, Issue 4-5, October 2021, pages 129 to 145

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This text questions the status of mediators of the great historical figures of anthropology in an ideological context marked by emerging eradicating postures, some going so far as to advocate for the removal of statues as symbols of past oppression. Through exploration of British and French anthropologists whose careers have taken place in the shadow of an era of colonial or neocolonial devices, the author questions the posture known as cancel culture before concluding that neither history, nor the violence to which it has born witness, can be erased.

anti-colonialism
ancestor
mediator
cancel culture
historicity

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ISO 690		Copy HOURS Bernard, « Du culte des ancêtres‑médiateurs au renversement de leurs statues ? », Journal des anthropologues, 2021/4-5 (n° 166-167), p. 129-145. DOI : 10.4000/jda.11232. URL : https://cairn:wghqyw8uhkb3@preprod.cairn.info/revue-journal-des-anthropologues-2021-4-page-129.htm
ISO 690		Copy HOURS Bernard, "From the Worship of Ancestor-Mediators to the Destruction of Their Statues?", Journal des anthropologues, 2021/4-5 (n° 166-167), p. 129-145. DOI: 10.4000/jda.11232. URL: https://cairn:wghqyw8uhkb3@preprod.cairn-int.info/journal-des-anthropologues-2021-4-page-129.htm
MLA		Copy Hours, Bernard. « Du culte des ancêtres‑médiateurs au renversement de leurs statues ? », Journal des anthropologues, vol. 166-167, no. 4-5, 2021, pp. 129-145.
MLA		Copy Hours, Bernard. "From the Worship of Ancestor-Mediators to the Destruction of Their Statues?", Journal des anthropologues, vol. 166-167, no. 4-5, 2021, pp. 129-145.
APA		Copy Hours, B. (2021). Du culte des ancêtres‑médiateurs au renversement de leurs statues ?. Journal des anthropologues, 166-167, 129-145. https://doi.org/10.4000/jda.11232
APA		Copy Hours, B. (2021). From the Worship of Ancestor-Mediators to the Destruction of Their Statues?. Journal des anthropologues, 166-167, 129-145. https://doi.org/10.4000/jda.11232
DOI		Copy https://doi.org/10.4000/jda.11232

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