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Every year in February, the classic mimosa festival in Mandelieu, in the Alpes-Maritimes, maintains the tradition of floral floats, each one telling a story. This year, the theme was "The Olympics gone wild". Ah! the...
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In January, Peru recovered more than two hundred pre-Hispanic archaeological objects - ceramics, sculptures, textiles and objects of indigenous art - from collectors and institutions in several countries. A few weeks earlier, forty-one archaeological pieces were recovered from...
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Since 6 December 2023, a reform of federal legislation on the protection of American Indian heritage has required establishments to obtain the agreement of the tribes concerned before exhibiting their heritage. The December update of the regulations governing the...
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The precious ceremonial ornament, woven from natural fibres and covered with thousands of red ibis feathers, will leave the National Museum in Copenhagen in 2024 to join the collections of the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro.There are only 11 known Tupinambá cloaks...
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Butō is a contemporary dance founded in the 1960s by Japanese dancers Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-1986) and Kazuo Ōno (1906-2010). Hijikata created a transcultural, transgressive and revolutionary form of expression, rejecting institutionalised artistic styles, but sometimes referencing...
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