Currently on view at the Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève in Switzerland is a compelling exhibition entitled
C'est de l'homme dont j'ai à parler. Rousseau et l'inégalité (It is of Men that I Have to Speak. Rousseau and Inequality), which focuses on the historical and cultural milieu of Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. From
Geneva to the Americas via Switzerland, the East, and "Negroland"; through images, European and non-European art objects, texts, music, contemporary art and a handful of
old books; the MEG invites its visitors to discover Rousseau the
anthropologist and, around him, a period which, before ours, thought
deeply about the history of mankind and the destiny of the people on
earth. With Rousseau as guide, the questions, if not always the answers, are still pertinent today.
Visit the exhibition's official website.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Design by Albrier, engraving by Huet - 1825
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| Mask - Iroquois, Canada - Beginning of 19th century |
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| Pectoral - South Africa, Namibia, or Botswana - Late 19th or early 20th century |
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| Friendship baton, hunka-yapi - Lakota, North America - 20th century |
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| Tomahawk pipe - North America - 19th century |
Information and images courtesy of the Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève
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