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"Looking very far away, towards very different cultures" and, with the same intention, "looking at one's own culture from a distance". According to Claude Lévi-Strauss, this double decentring constitutes the essence and originality of the ethnological approach.
It is this simultaneous movement to bring the distant closer and to distance the near that drives the publishing house Dépaysage, through two collections: one devoted to indigenous studies, "L'entaille d'Orphée", and the other to the major contemporary issues addressed by the human and social sciences in general, and by anthropology in particular, "Sous l'écorce".
But there is no science in the world that can capture the full human experience. Only literature has this immense power. Through its "Talismans" collection, Éditions Dépaysage aims to raise awareness of the powerful language and fertile imaginations of North America's Aboriginal authors. In the same spirit, "Animales" places writing at the heart of the struggles of the present: the collection welcomes feminist voices that question domination, redraw our links with animals and open up new forms of hospitality to the living.
Finally, the creation of Editions Dépaysage is a way of paying tribute to the literary work and humanism of Jacques Lacarrière, the last periegete.
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