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PRESENT
AND PAST ACTIVITIES
Overall
results
3
books, 8 scientific articles, 3 conferences, 3 movies (26 min, 52
min, 78 min), 5 reportages in magazines, 1 exhibition, 2 agreements,
supervision of 3 students
February
1998.
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First expedition to the Archipelago on a rented catamaran with MAP
members.
Visited locations: Kaw Thaung (Victoria Point) town, Sisters (Lengan),
Bentinck, Yenge Kyunn, Myeik town, King, Elphinstone (Donepeleaw
village), Ross Island (Dun Jun, Nyomay village), Jack Island (Wei
village), Clara, Great Swinton, Lord Loughborough.
Results:
- Location, mapping and assessment of the Moken situation.
- Articles: Ivanoff, J., " Recomposition of the Moken Identity
" ; Ivanoff, J. and al. " Rediscovering the Mergui Archipelago",
Bonjour Siam Magazine (Phuket).
- Project of a Moken School (Thierry Lejard).
- Drawings, cartography, sketches of Moken and Myanmar boats (Luca
Gansser).
- Contacts with authorities at Kaw Thaung and Myeik, discussions
with the members of the Myeik and Tenasserim Journals.
- Authorisation for Sibian Discovery Association to visit, navigate
and promote the Myeik (Mergui) Archipelago on a traditional Myanmar
cargo boat called Moken Queen.
- Co-operative agreement between Myeik and Tenasserim Journals and
Techniques et Culture (CNRS, France) to promote the Myanmar cultural
heritage, translating and publishing anglo-myanmar publications.
February
1999.
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Second expedition on the Moken Queen, MAP members together with
Christian Nicolle (translator), Philippe Bourseiller (photographer),
Kunlasab Utpuay (assistant).
Visited locations: Kaw Thaung (Victoria Point) town, Sisters (Lengan),
Kento, Bentinck, Parker, Mergui islands and town, Sellore (Sekantik
village), Ross, Courts, Kisseraing, Malcolm (Aleman village), Pulao
Myang.
Results:
- Photo report for VSD Magazine (" Le paradis ouvre ses portes
", photos by P. Bourseiller, text by J. Ivanoff, Paris, April
1999, pp. 72-20).
- Archaeological items (porcelains) founded on Sellore Island.
- Discussion with French archaeologists.
- Research on tradition boat building (myanmar Long Hlay)
- Collection and identification of food and medicinal plants used
by the Moken (Sylvia Voss).
- Updating Moken situation.
- Article : Ivanoff, J., "Rediscovering the Mergui Archipelago",
Myeik Journal
April
and May 1999.
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Third expedition to the Archipelago on the Moken Queen, MAP members
together with Jerome-Cecil Auffret and Philippe Poissonnier (film-makers)
Visited locations: Kaw Thaung (Victoria Point) town, Sisters (Lengan),
Kento, Bentinck, Parker, Mergui islands and town, Sellore (Sekantik
village), Ross, Courts, Kisseraing, Malcolm (Aleman village), Pulao
Myang.
Results:
- Scouting for a documentary on the Moken, writing of a synopsis
The lost mermaid of the Archipelago.
- Updating Moken situation.
- Video film for archives.
- Discovery of archaeological sites in Uniackle Island (pre-Pagan
inscriptions ?) and Bataung Island (old rock paintings)
- Further studies on boat building (moken kabang and myanmar Long
Hlay)
- Preparation of the conference Myanmar Two Millennia Conference
(Yangon, 15-17 Dec.)
- Preparation of the book Rings of Coral: Moken Folktales, White
Lotus Press, 490 pages, illustrations by Luca Gansser, index, glossary.
- Collecting items for exhibition
February
and March 2000.
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Fourth expedition on Moken Queen, MAP Members together with Silvano
Immeli (photographer), Stephan Armbruster (musician) and Franz Fritse
(biologist).
Visited locations: Kaw Thaung (Victoria Point) town, Pine Tree,
Unamed Islands West of Pocok, Great Swinton, Clara, Sisters, Bentinck,
Courts, Lyall, Elphinstone, Tenasserim, Marble, Huggentaik, Wa-Ale
Kyon, Myeik town, Pu Nala, Bada, Potter, Lord Loughborough, Macleold.
Results:
- Studies on musical instruments.
- Updating Moken situation.
- Collecting items for the exhibition.
- Photographs and sketches.
- Article : Gansser, L. and Ivanoff, J. " Apercu d'une évolution
technique et rituelle en Basse-Birmanie. De la batellerie à
la pêche littorale et inter-îlienne " in Traversées,
Techniques et Culture no. 35-36, 2001, pp. 329-372, drawings, maps.
February
2001.
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Fifth expedition MAP members together with Sambo Gansser (Artist,
Strategic and Technic adviser of MAP), Marcello Cartolano (Ethnologist,
General Co-ordinator of MAP), Christian Nicolle (translator), Urs
Huber Uri (Painter and Architect), Ursula Markus (Photograph).
Visited locations: Kaw Thaung (Victoria Point) town, Pine Tree,
Domel, Huggenthaik, Marble, Sisters, Pu Nala, Kisseraing, Sellore,
Myeik Town, Kanzagyi.
Results:
- Collect items for the exhibition.
- Photographs, surveys, sketches.
- Sketches of traditional houses in Myeik.
- Supervising field work student.
- Preparation of the book A Journey through the Mergui Archipelago.
- Discovering of fossilised gastropod.
March
2002
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Sixth expedition in the Archipelago of the Moken Queen MAP members
together with Lars Wolfgang Guido, Léo Scomorovschi, Guillaume
Juherian (film-makers), Ursula Markus and Umberto Tomasi.
Visited locations: Kaw Thaung town, Bada (Nyang Wee), Pu Nala (Majong
Klay), Great Swinton, Lampi, Sisters (Lengan), Kubin (Yekantaung
village), Myeik town, Yangon.
Results:
- Preparation of the exhibition A Journey through the Myeik Archipelago
held at the Pan Sea hotel on the 20th of April.
- Collect items for the exhibition (100 items: boats model, spirits
poles, harpoon, spears, goggles, traditional collecting tools, baskets,
etc).
- Photographs, surveys, sketches.
- Supervising field work student.
- Preparation of the new project Mergui Archipelago Project-Research
And Integrated Development.
- Movie: Moken: l'avventure birmane d'un ethnologue (78 mn, 109
FILMS) by Léo Scomorovschi and Guillaume Juherian.
- Movie: A Journey through the Mergui Archipelago (12 mn) by Wolfang
Lars.
- Overall comprehensive situation of the Moken mobility, study on
dialectal variation in Moken and retracing the cultural motivation
of the nomad mobility (Jacques Ivanoff and Marcello Cartolano).
- Books: Jacques Ivanoff and Thierry Lejard A Journey through the
Mergui Archipelago, White Lotus Press, 234 p. Mergui et les limbes
de l'Archipel oublié, Ketos and White Lotus Press, 234 p.
(French version Mergui et les limbes de l'Archipel oublié,
White Lotus Press and Kétos-Anthropologie maritime)
- Preparation of articles on sea folks for Animan, Swiss Magazine.
February
2003
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Seventh expedition in the Archipelago of the Moken Queen MAP members
together with Bernard Crouzet, Jean-Charles Cameau, Daniel Henquet
(Film makers), Philippe Bourseiller (Photographer), Olivier Ferrari
(Geologist, Ph. D. Doctorate), Ernelle Berliet (Archeologist, Ph.
D. Doctorate), Maxime Boutry (Ethnologist, Ph. D. Doctorate).
Visited locations: Kaw Thaung town, Bada (Nyang Wee), Pu Nala (Majong
Klay), Great Swinton, Lampi, Sisters (Lengan), Kubin (Yekantaung
village), Myeik town, Yangon.
Results:
- 22 mn movie, Le voyage de Danaï (Thalassa)
- Photographs
and paper for Géo Magazine, Chroniques Nomades.
- Geological survey and sample sent to Swizerland, University of
Lausanne for the PhD work of O. Ferrari, funded by the Swiss National
Fund for Scientific Research.
- Photographs, surveys, sketches.
- Scan of 1000 photos, drawings, maps, CD and given to the CHAT.
- Short movies and documentaries on the Moken from 1957 to 2002.
- Discussion for a museum of the Archipelago.
December
2003
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Eight expedition in the Archipelago of the Moken Queen MAP members
together with Franck Desplanques (journalist assistant film maker),
Maxime Boutry (Ethnologist)
Visited locations: Kaw Thaung town, Bada (Nyang Wee), Pu Nala (Majong
Klay), Great Swinton, Lampi, Sisters (Lengan), Ross, Elphinstone,
Myeik town, Yangon.
Results:
- Recce for a 52mn on the Moken (Thalassa).
- Survey on the fisherman and Moken mobility.
- Photographs, surveys, sketches.
March
2004
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Ninth expedition of together with Frank Desplanques (journalist
assistant film maker), Pascal Sutra-Fourcade (film maker pixie-TV),
Adrien (ingénieur du son) and J. Ivanoff.
Results
-Shooting of a movie about the Moken for Thalassa
-Comparative research on moken sciamanism and new form of research
esthetics
March-April
2004
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Tenth expedition together with Nicolas Reynard (photographer), Maria
(assistant), Thierry Lejard (march), Maxime Boutry, Jacques Ivanoff
(april), Olivier Ferrari (march)
Results
-Reportage for National Geographic Magazine
-Fieldwork research for PhD. candidate M. Boutry (Marittime appropriation
of Myanmar people)
-Fieldwork research for PhD. candidate O. Ferrari (Geodynamic and
paleogeographic history of Southeast Asia)
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