4 pm: Lecture by Yoann Dumel-Vaillot: “Planting your cabbages in the other world, getting tender in the dovecote… Shamanic cures as a political strategy”

“When they light Muu’s path, it runs like blood;
the trickle flows under the hammock, like blood, all red ;
the white inner tissue sinks to the bottom of the earth…”
– Therapeutic incantation collected in the 20th century from the Cuna Indians of Panama (after Claude Lévi-Strauss, L’efficacité symbolique, 1949).

“The first person I found there was a good man who planted oak trees.”
– François Rabelais, Pantagruel, chap. XXXII (1532).

The presence of the cabbage leads us to the discovery of an older world, which at first appears to be a new world. The exploration of its cavities, inside the body of the giant Pantagruel, is as much a speleological cure as a strategic attitude towards power.
Between this world and the other, the specular doubling opens up a depth of field: it questions, in particular, our experiences or possibilities of action in terms of attention and care.