Les fils de l'intimité

Abstract

Saving the memory of artefacts: a biographical intimacy Thanks to an ethnologist field survey in Indre, we can discover intimacy kept in linen cupboards and attics, familial souvenirs little studied by ethnology up to now. With these various artefacts, links between the living and the dead appear while telling painfull events. Intimacy, essential nucleus of biographical construction, becomes perceptible in a sensorial experience that stores the affection in ordinary and secular relics.