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Anthropologue, coordinatrice ANR EsCA, coresponsable de l'initiative de recherche Non-lieux de l'exil, FMSH, Paris, France Elle travaille actuellement à la Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme après avoir longtemps enseigné à l’Université de Yaoundé I (Cameroun). Elle étudie tout particulièrement la culture matérielle, les patrimonialisations, les représentations de l’altérité (épistémologiques, muséographiques), et depuis quelques années les objets de/en exil et notamment la culture matérielle des exilés. 

Parmi ses publications récentes : “L’embarras patrimonial. Mémoires croisées Galitzine/Pouchkine dans l’oussad’ba Viaziomy (Moscou)” dans Architecture et patrimoine dans les Etats post-soviétiques, sous la dir. de Taline Ter Minassian (PUR 2013) ; Pour une typologie des objets de l’exil (2013)  http://wpfmsh.hypotheses.org/362, « Exil(Objets) » dans Glossaire des mobilités culturelles, Zilà Bernd et Norah Dei Cas eds.  Peter Lang eds, mai 2014). D'autres textes sont en cours de publication.

Elle est co-directrice du programme “Non-lieux de l’exil” (FMSH).

She is senior researcher with the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS) at the Centre d’études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine (UMR 8173 Chine, Corée, Japon). Her field of research focus on the intangible cultural heritage and on the appropriation of the Intangible cultural heritage convention of UNESCO (2003) in China. She conducts fieldwork studies over northern part of the country, especially in Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces. She also works on the history of construction and the anthropology of techniques during Late imperial and contemporary China. She published several articles in those topics and a book entitled La voûte dans l’architecture chinoise : un patrimoine méconnu (Maisonneuve et Larose, 2005). She is co-author of a documentary made with Elodie Brosseau entitled Yaodong, little treaty of construction, 89 ‘, EHESS & AnimaViva production that won the Intangible Cultural Heritage Award at the 31st Festival of Ethnographic Film Jean Rouch in 2012 and the second prize at the Festival du Film de chercheurs, Nancy, 2014.

Born in Bafou (Cameroon). At 10, he watched for the first time Bruce Lee’s and started practicing Wushu in High School. He got a master in management and was exceptionally admitted into the Shaolin Temple. Later he successfully got a degree in Wushu, at the Sport University of Beijing.

He got the certification of International Jud and referee, and Wushu expert. DMS is presently the first Black and fourth foreigner to be designated as member of the Shaolin Temple of the 34th generation called SHI YAH MAI. From 1998 to 2005, he won many medals during Wushu international competitions in Asia, Europe and Africa. He also devotes himself to passing on his know-how in coaching and training. He participated in action films as an actor, a stuntman and choreographer for scenes which involve bouts.

He fluently speaks Chinese, English, French and Bamileke dialect. DMS is also a Businessman, currently the Vice-President of the Federation of Investors China-Africa and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of DMS International Group. On a regular basis, DMS holds conferences and seminars about his unusual background and experiences in universities and international forums . In 2012, Dominique Saatenang created a troupe of artists under the name of “Shaolin Black and White”.

She tries to develop a multi-sited ethnography on tourism practices, politics and imaginaries. In Porto-Novo, Benin’s capital, her work examines the connection between heritagization, tourism and vodoo Worship. The renovation of the city is the focus of a long-standing conflict between supporters of the heritagization of the colonial and Afro-Brazilian city centre, and the proponents of its demolition in order to build a modern city that could accommodate the economic elites of the sub-region, especially from Nigeria, with the help of China. In this context, Vodoo, its gods and its influence network play a crucial urban, social and political role, although it is not taken into account by the European development cooperation which is focused on the built heritage. In contrast, for most inhabitants, this built heritage is synonymous with discomfort, poverty, or even post-colonial power.

She obtained her PhD at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in 2005 and since then she has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of ethnology, Academia Sinica in Taiwan, a lecturer at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and the Ecole normale supérieure (ENS) in Paris, and a EURIAS fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in 2012-3.

Her research examines Chinese globalization and the Chinese diaspora in a global anthropological and historical perspective. She is the author of a book about the Chinese community in French Polynesia, Chinois en Polynésie française. Migration, métissage, diaspora (Société d’ethnologie, 2010).

She has published over twenty journal articles among others in l’Homme, Anthropological Theory, and Ethnic and Racial Studies, and co-edited a special issue on museums and heritage in China in the journal Gradhiva.

Her current research examines the social and economic transformations in a former lineage-village of the Shenzhen special economic zone in China and the changes in the relations between the members of the local community and their relatives in the diaspora. https://unil.academia.edu/AnneChristineTrémon