2016 « Linguistic Variation and cultural differentiation in North America »

Workshop

Linguistic Variation and cultural differentiation in North America

Wednesday 7 December 2016                                                                                                               190, avenue de France 75013 Paris ; Salle du Conseil B

The workshop «  Linguistic variation and cultural differentiation » » aims to promote discussions between linguists and anthropologists concerning the comparison between models of  cultural and linguistic variation in North America. This workshop is organized by the LIAS- IMM as part of a research project SOURVA « Sources of cultural variation » founded by the ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche). SOURVA is devoted to further our understanding of three models of cultural differentiation  – the diffusionist model, the transformational model and the transactional model – and to gain a better insight into how they complement each other, and how they apply to the diversity of  North American native languages and cultures.

Programme 

9h30: Introduction

Session I: Around Language

10h:  « Parents and Neighbours: Genealogical and Social Relationships in the New World »   Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara)

11h: « A reading of the Dakota Bible : Visual Parallelism and Ritual song »  Carlo Severi (EHESS-LAS)

12h: « Another look at the Athabascan verb complex » Michel de Fornel (EHESS-IMM-LIAS)

Session II: Beyond the Languages

14h: « The Musical Areas in question » Hugo Ferran (EHESS-IMM-LIAS)

15h: « Kinship terminologies and Catholicism in Subarctic » Marion Robinaud (EHESS-IMM-LIAS)

15h30: « Transformation of plastic forms » Emmanuel Désveaux (EHESS-IMM-LIAS)

Résumés des interventions