The symposium "Franz Boas: analysing perspective" aims to question the images, in the broad sense of the term, that Boas constructed of North American Indians: images formed from field work and close relations with indigenous people, like his friend and collaborator George Hunt; photographs, drawings, geographic representations; images of myth and memory, compiled into a compendium of museographic installations; lastly, ritual images of art, masks, totems and other objects that he contributed to helping discover, in the United States and in European private and public collections .

Organisers

The Department of Research and Education at the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Michel Espagne, Isabelle Kalinowski, the CNRS, the "Transferts culturels" team and the Ecole Normale Supérieure