Le Scalp et le calumet. Imaginer et représenter l'Indien en Occident du XVIe siècle à nos jours. Histoire surrounded by the pyramids of

surrounded by the pyramids of Sekhem-khet

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Le Scalp et le calumet. Imaginer et représenter l'Indien en Occident du XVIe siècle à nos jours. Histoire surrounded by the pyramids ofThe ambivalent figure of the American Indian has never ceased to populate our imagination: from the good primitive to the romantic hero, passing by the eternal libertarian and the bloodthirsty savage, his representation has demonstrated a remarkable polysemy, reinventing itself according to the philosophical, scientific and artistic currents of the Old Continent. The discovery of America was an unprecedented upheaval for European minds of the 16th