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Dr. Sylvie BEAUD sp. KOBAYASHI
3-7-14 Horinouchi, Suginami-ku, Tokyo, 166-0013, Japon
Email : [email protected]
Date of birth: 1979, 11th, February – Nationality: French – Married, two children
1- CURRENT SITUATION
PhD in Anthropology (University of Paris Ouest Nanterre-La Défense–ex Paris X, France),
Associate fellow at the Center for Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (Nanterre, France),
Associate fellow at the French Research Institute Abroad, Maison franco-japonaise (Tokyo).
2- LANGUAGES AND COMPUTING SKILLS
French (native)
English, Chinese (excellent reading, writing, speaking and comprehension),
Japanese (good speaking and comprehension)
Software training: Endnote, Powerpoint, Word, Multilingual Zotero
3- EDUCATION
PhD in Anthropology, with honors 2012 University of Paris Ouest Nanterre
Dissertation: Masks on Parade. Han Identity in the Interplay of Politics and Ritual :
the Case of the Guan Suo Opera (Yunnan, China), in French, 570 p.
MA in Anthropology, with honors 2003 University of Paris X – Nanterre
Dissertation: From Clothes to Costume: Identity Claims amongst Han People in
Yangzong (Yunnan), in French, 135 p.
MA in Chinese Language and Civilization, with honors 2005 National Institute for
Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO, Paris)
Dissertation: The Guan Suo Opera’s Repertory of the Yangzong Han People (Yunnan).
An annotated Translation, 2 vols., in French, 206 p.
BA in Chinese Language and Civilization
2001
INALCO
4- TEACHING EXPERIENCE
4.1- IN ANTHROPOLOGY
2004-2007 Assistant lecturer in Anthropology, University of Paris X- Nanterre
Introduction to Anthropology, BA 1st year, (24 hours/year). The course covered a wide
range of topics such as ethnocentrism, evolutionism, the space, the body, the social
construction of gender, tradition, transmission and exchanges, as well as identity. Reading
of selected anthropological texts of M. Kilani, L. Morgan, C. Levi-Strauss, P. Bourdieu,
M. Mauss, M. Mead, J. Jamin, J.-L. Amselle et E. M’Bokolo.
Social Organization, BA 2nd year (20 hours/year). The course covered topics such as:
gender, age groups, residential domestic unit, organizations in halves, ritual kinship, casts,
patron-client relationship. Readings included F. Héritier, G. Bateson, A.-M. Peatrik, D.
Casajus, P. Ottino, C. Levi-Strauss, J. Pitt-Rivers, M. Granet, L. Dumont, E. de
Dampierre, L. de Heusch’s works.
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Fieldwork methodology, BA 1st year (48 hours/year). Reading of major anthropological
texts. Main themes: hunting-gathering, farming and nomadic pastoralism. Co-taught with
one ethnomusicologist and one prehistorian. Study of fundamental anthropological notions
such as “fieldwork”, “informants”, “the other”, “participating observation”, “monograph”,
“purity and authenticity”.
Korea and Japan area: course on Korea, Master (10 hours/year). History of western
anthropology on Korea, kinship, the two Koreas, and the divided families.
4.2- OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE
September 2013 to present Assistant lecturer in French, Aoyama Gaikuin University,
Tokyo
French as foreign language (20 hours/semester). The courses I am in charge are
Conversation (BA 1st year), and Phonetic and Oral expression (BA 2nd year).
January-March 2013 Assistant lecturer in French, Athénée français, Tokyo
Preparation for the French-Japanese interpreter-guide degree (24 hours/trimester).
Language course in French relying of various text materials of my own selection, ranging
from literature, science, newspaper articles to Internet pages, about Japanese culture
(politic, economy, art, environment, tourism, among others).
5- RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
5.1- CURRENT AND PAST ACTIVITIES
November 2011 to present Coordinator of the Doctoral seminar, monthly seminar, French
Research Institute Abroad, Maison franco-japonaise, Tokyo.
Seminar for French speaking PhD candidates in Japan. Contact: doctorantsmfj
[add]@gmail.com.
February 2011 to present Coordinator of the Writing Social Sciences Workshop, monthly
seminar, French Research Institute Abroad, Maison franco-japonaise, Tokyo.
Considering the writing process as inseparable from epistemological requirement, this
workshop focuses on the production of data and the construction of knowledge. We work
on our own productions: every meeting, we proofread texts of two participants and discuss
how to improve them.
2011-2012 Research Assistant « Global COE for Research on Theater and Film », Waseda
University, Tokyo
Main activity: PhD dissertation writing
2010-2012 Visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (Tobunken), The
University of Tokyo
Main activity: PhD dissertation writing
PHD DISSERTATION: Masks on Parade. Han Identity in the Interplay of Politics and Ritual :
the Case of the Guan Suo Opera (Yunnan, China)
Original title : Masques en parade. Étude d’une identité Han à la jonction du politique et du
rituel : l’exemple du Théâtre de Guan Suo (Yunnan, Chine)
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Abstract :
The inhabitants of Yangzong, in Yunnan province, officially belong to the Han ethnic
majority, and yet their ethnicity is often questioned by outsiders. The local women’s clothes,
for example, tend to make them look very much like one of the numerous ethnic minority
groups. However, the villagers regularly reiterate their claim to Han identity through the
performance of a masked opera at the New Year festival. This masked practice, named after
the deified character of Guan Suo, became a major cultural expression of community identity
recognized by the locals as well as the authorities. The practice was designated “national
intangible cultural heritage” in 2010. Although there is consensus among locals and officials
at different levels on the overall cultural value of the opera, the various actors differ in their
interpretation of its significance: while the promotion of the Guan Suo Opera as a “living
fossil” of Chinese culture is part of the official nationalist discourse, the Yangzong people
consider the ritual opera a way to transmit their history and lay claim to their identity as Han.
The banner of Guan Suo provides unity to villagers of various origins who can thus establish
themselves as a cult community ritually anchored to a specific territory. This thesis
interrogates these differing discourses to examine the way in which representations of identity
are built and coexist as a means to reconstruct the past, act in the present and prepare the
future.
Keywords:
Identity – ethnicity – ritual – masks – politics – intangible heritage – memory – China
5.2- GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2013
Dissertation Award in Chinese Studies, French Association for Chinese Studies
2010-2011
Doctoral Dissertation Writing Grant, Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation, Taïwan
2004-2007
Research Scholarship at the Center for Ethnology and Comparative Sociology,
Nanterre
2003-2004
Scholarship for Outstanding Studies at University (Bourse de mérite
universitaire), CROUS, Versailles
5.3- PUBLICATIONS
1. FORTHCOMING
1.1. ACCEPTED, TO BE PUBLISHED IN 2014
“De l’exorcisme archaïque à l’art premier : différentes conceptions des masques « nuo » de
Chine en France” [From Archaïc Exorcism to Primitve Art. Various conceptions of
“nuo” Masks from China to France], in G. Krauskopff & P. Dollfus (eds.), Objets
déplacés. Collection, classification, artification,18 p.
“How the North Tried to Pacify the South through Ritual Practices: the Origins of the
Guan Suo Opera in the Nineteenth Century”, in Victor Mair (ed.), Imperial China and Its
Southern Neighbours, Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, ISEAS, Singapore, 30 p.
“Contemporary Chinese Masks in the Flux of Modernity – An Anthropological
Perspective on the Guan Suo Opera“, in A. Reynolds and B. Roos (eds.), Masks of
Modernity: Un/covering Global Modernisms, 21 p.
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“Corps humains, corps divins. Transformation rituelle des acteurs du Théâtre de Guan Suo”
[Human bodies, divine bodies. Ritual Transformation of the Guan Suo Opera’s Actors],
in B. Baptandier (éd.), Le corps lacunaire, le battement de la vie. Approches ethnologiques,
34 p.
Review of Carrico, Kevin, The Imaginary Institution of China: Dialectics of Fantasy and
Failure in Nationalist Identification, as Seen through China’s Han Clothing Movement, (PhD
dissertation, Cornell University, 2013), Dissertation Reviews website.
http://dissertationreviews.org/
1.2. UNDER REVIEW
“Being Han in a Multi-Ethnic Region of the People’s Republic of China”, Asian Ethnicity,
31 p.
“Riding Alone, pour un fils : heuristique de l’intertextualité” [Intertextuality at play in
Zhang Yimou’s movie Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles], Littérature, 22 p.
2. PUBLISHED
“Jean Jacques Tschudin, Histoire du théâtre classique japonais (coll. Essais, Toulouse,
Anacharsis, 2011)”, Book Review, Ebisu, n°. 48 (automn-winter), 2012: 203-205.
“Un ‘fossile vivant’ de la culture nuo nationale: Réflexion sur la désignation de nuoxi
appliquée au Guan Suo xi” [A ‘living fossil’ of the National nuo Culture: Essay on the
notion of nuoxi applied to the Guan Suo Opera], Études chinoises, Vol. XXXI , n°. 1,
2012 : 95-108.
“De la couleur à la voix : l’exemple des masques du Théâtre de Guan Suo (Yunnan, Chine)”
[From Color to Voice: a Case Study of the Guan Suo Opera’s Masks], in G. Boëtsch, D.
Chevé et H. Claudot-Hawad (éds.), Décors des corps, Paris, CNRS Editions, 2010: 343-350.
“Yves Lenoir et Nicolas Standaert (éds), Les danses rituelles chinoises d’après Joseph-Marie
Amiot, (Namur, Presses universitaires de Namur, Editions Lessius, 2005)”, Book Review,
Études Chinoises, vol. XXV, 2006 : 415-421.
5.4- COMMUNICATIONS
2012 « De l’instrument politique à l’emblème culturel : le cas du Théâtre de Guan Suo
dans le sud-ouest de la Chine » [From Political Instrument to Cutlural Emblem: a
Case Study on The Guan Suo Opera in Southwest China], Doctoral Seminar, 2nd,
October, at the French Research Institute Abroad, Maison franco-japonaise, Tokyo.
2012 « La valse des masques : circulation des artefacts du Théâtre de Guan Suo au niveau
régional (Chine) » [The Masks Waltz: Circulation of the Guan Suo Opera’s
Artifacts at the Regional Level (PRC)], Parcours d’objets d’objets – Objets d’art
himalayens en transit, International Symposium ANR Himal’Art, 24th-26th,
September, Maison René Ginouvès, Nanterre & Musée du Quai Branly, Paris.
2012 “A multi-religious ritual supporting the local Han identity: a case study on the
Guan Suo Opera (Yunnan, China)”, Panel “Multi-religious rituals: performativity,
ambivalence and the need to cope with uncertainty”, Annual Congress of the
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European Association for Anthropology (EASA), 10th-13th, July, University of Paris
Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Nanterre.
2012 “The Origins of the Guan Suo Opera in the Nineteenth Century: How the North
tried to pacify the South through ritual practices”, International Conference
Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours, 28th-29th, June, Singapour.
2012 “The sociological context at the origins of the Guan Suo Opera in nineteenth
century Yunnan (China)”, Asian Studies Network (ASNET) seminar, 7th, June,
Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo (Japon).
http://www.asnet.u-tokyo.ac.jp/node/7320
2012 « De l’instrument politique à l’emblème culturel : perspective diachronique sur le
culte de Guan Suo dans le sud-ouest de la Chine » [From Political Instrument to
Cultural Emblem: Diachronic Perspective on the Guan Suo Opera], Symposium
« Les emblèmes culturels comme ressources politiques » [Cultural Emblems as
Political Ressources], 3rd, April, LERSEM, CERCE, Centre de la Maison des
sciences de l’Homme, Montpellier.
2011 « Des rites de nuo aux “fossiles vivants“. Réflexions sur une désignation ancienne
remise au goût du jour » [From Nuo Ritual to “Living Fossils”. The
modernization of an old designation], Young scholars workshop, French
Association for Chinese Studies, 23rd, June, Maison de l’Asie, Paris.
2011 « Cong Guan Suo xi de jiaodu laikan Zhang Yimou de dianying “Qianli zou danqi“
从关索戏的角度看张艺谋的电影《千里⾛走单骑》 » [Watching Zhang Yimou’s
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles from the Guan Suo Opera’s Perspective],
Global COE for Research on Theater and Film, 28th, May, Waseda University.
2010 “Being Han in Yunnan, Anthropological Perspectives”, Asian Studies Network
(ASNET) Seminar, 16th September, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The
University of Tokyo.
http://www.asnet.u-tokyo.ac.jp/node/6959
2010 « Présentation des masques du théâtre d’exorcisme nuo. L’exemple du Théâtre de
Guan Suo » [Introduction to Chinese nuo Drama’s Masks: a Case Study on the
Guan Suo Opera], Conference Himal’Art : Circulations des objets d’art en
Himalaya, ANR – University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense – CNRS, 24th,
May, Paris.
2008 « De la couleur à la voix : l’exemple des masques du Théâtre de Guan Suo (Province
du Yunnan, République populaire de Chine) » [From Color to Voice: a Case Study
of the Guan Suo Opera’s Masks], Interdisciplinary Colloquium Couleurs sur le
Corps, 27th-29th, October, CNRS, Jardins du Trocadéro (Paris).
2008 “Being Han in a multi-ethnic region of the People’s Republic of China: an
anthropological perspective on the inhabitants of Yangzong valley, Yunnan
province”, communication, Critical Han Studies Symposium and Workshop, 24th27th, April, Stanford University (California, USA).
5.5- OTHER RESEARCH OUTPUTS
INTERVIEW FOR SCIENTIFIC ARCHIVES:
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2012
Faculty interview, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of
Tokyo (online 2012, 13th, March)
English: http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/interview/36.html
Japanese: http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/interview/36.html
ARCHIVE AND TRANSCRIPTION
2012 Archive and transcription of Takashima Hokkai’s name cards, work published in:
UKAI, Atsuko, 2012, « Kawamura korekushyon Oushū Meishi chō wo
megutte – Takashima Hokkai ni yotte Furansu taizai chū ni shyūshyū sareta
Meishi wo chūshin ni » (On the Kawamura Collection Visiting Cards from
European Friendships – A look at cards collected by Takashima Hokkai
during his stay in France), Shimonoseki-shi shiritsu bijyutsukan kenkyū kiyou
(Shimonoseki City Art Museum Research Bulletin), n°. 13: 10-51.
Research assistant for Dr. Ukai Atsuko, art historian and specialist of intercultural
exchanges in the nineteenth century.
6- COMMUNITY SERVICE AND MEMBERSHIP
PEER-REVIEW:
2008
Peer-review work for the journal Civilisations, Université Libre de Bruxelles
EXHIBITION:
2008 Exhibition of Chinese masks and clothing, Exhibition Couleurs sur corps [Colors on
the body], 23rd, October –9th, November, CNRS, in partnership with the Nivea
Observatory & the Paris Municipality government, Trocadéro Garden, Paris.
Group of events on the topic: How do colors dress the body? Invited by the
exhibition scenographs, I exhibited one embroidered Han clothing from the
Yangzong region, some Chinese style children protective hats, as well as some
pictures of the Guan Suo Opera’s masks. A brief text explaining the shown
artifacts as well as my research on them accompanied the items.
MEMBERSHIP:
Member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
Member of the French Association for Chinese Studies (AFEC)
Member of Scienscope (Network of French speaking scientists in Japan)
7- FIELDWORK
2005-2007
2 years in the Yangzong valley (Yunnan province, P R China) during my
doctoral research devoted to the Guan Suo Opera.
2003
10 days (Shanghai, Beijing), as the representative candidate of my
university (INALCO) at the 2nd edition of the « Chinese Bridge » (Hanyu
qiao), a Chinese language and culture contest for foreign students in
Chinese, organized by the P R China’s government. This contest became
the focus of an academic article written to obtain my DEA diploma.
2002-2003
3 months in Chengjiang district (Yunnan, PRC) devoted to the study of the
Han women clothing in Yangzong, during the course of my master in
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anthropology.
1998-2000
Two years abroad for Chinese language study, Yunnan University,
Kunming (PRC).
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