Molinie Antoinette

Biography

Antoinette Molinié has spent several decades studying traditional societies in the Andes. She began with studies in Peru (in the Cusco region and the Chancay valley), then in Ambana, Bolivia, where she demonstrated the market economy integration methods of traditional Andean communities. Following several ethnographic studies, she conducted research on space representation and forms of ritual. She also examined the processes by which rituals become established in long-term memory and gain a specific historicity, as well as the connections between rituals and exegeses, systems of transformation of the myth/rite link in the highlands and lowlands. Her work took on a comparative dimension with studies in Spain, first in La Mancha and then in Andalucía, where she is currently working. This transatlantic comparative laboratory enabled her to show the mechanics of ethnogenesis of American Indian rites (that is to say their diachrony) by means of synchronized Spanish and Andean data, and to highlight the consistency of these two systems of thought through the exegeses of Corpus Christi.

Research Interest

Andes/Spain comparison, ritual, psychoanalytical anthropology, museography