Debary, Octave

2007, Hertz, Ellen, Debary, Octave

2005, Debary, Octave, Lachaud, Denis, Tellier, Arnaud

2004, Debary, Octave

2004, Debary, Octave, Tellier, Arnaud

This text analyzes, from an ethnographic standpoint, the way in which much less than redeties, markets much greater than local jumble sales - offer a collective means of recycling objects of little value. Having almost exhausted their practicality and become useless, they offer the possibility of historical redemption through the preservation of what must be safeguarded. Acquiring these objects implies a process of remembrance whereby history is sorted out, judged and written. Our debt towards history, embodied by these objects, can be construed as a necessary act of remembrance. (Trad. Andrew Gallix.)

2007, Debary, Octave, Turgeon, Laurier

2005, Debary, Octave

2004, Debary, Octave

2006, Brand, Magdalena, Cereghetti, Sara, Conlon, Tiana, Debary, Octave, Merminod, Vanessa

2004, Debary, Octave

2004, Debary, Octave

This ethnographic study of the creation of a museum in Le Creusot (France) provides an analysis of the heritage industry that emerged in the wake of the demise of a family company around which the town was built. This museum was a reaction to the passing of an age when industrial and urban environments were intrinsically linked. Through this description of how the past is collected and recollected in a museum, this article attempts to determine if this duty of remembrance is not, to a certain extent, a staging of history fading into oblivion-our society's sole response to industrial regeneration?