La modernité de la tradition: Une analyse de la géométrie culturelle dans « Nous, les premières nations », Musée de la civilisation, Québec 1

Here the author proposes a structural analysis of the exhibition through its geometrical forms : lines, circles and triangles. The circular form of the narrative is crossed by the linear geometric perspective which highlights the dynamic relations in western concepts such as the state, market, globalization and cyber space. The material objects occupancy of the exhibition space creates a particular meaning in the same way that the people's occupancy of a territory produces the community's ethnohistorical narrative. FITZGERALD, W. R., 1996 : « Contact, Contraction and the Little Ice Age: Neutral Iroquoian Transformation, AD 1450-1650 », in L. Turgeon, D. Delâge, R. Ouellet (dir.,) Cultural Transfer, America and Europe: 500 Years of Interculturation.