The
welcoming in the world of a child always generated rites, gestures,
habits, in all the ages of the world. The Museum de l'Homme
devotes his great exhibition of the year to the sacring of the birth,
in all its splendour and its diversity. Anywhere, in urban or
rural France, in Africa, in Asia, this birth certificate is clarified
here through a panorama imagined by a gynecologist, Rene Frydman and a
doctor anthropologist of CNRS, Alain Epelboin. Thus, the Museum
de l'Homme points out to us his correspondance with the National Museum
of Natural History, to which it belongs. This exhibition is articulated
around the three great stages of enfantement : The Childbirth, Around
the birth, the social Birth. These stages are illustrated by the
evocation of the birthplaces, the objects used, the gestures ritual
which accommodate it and testimonies of mothers. Objects, visual,
interactive installations, films and sounds constitute the basis of the
discovery. Some analyses very coloured such as the choice of the
flyers, or that of the first name, the nature of the festivals and the
ceremonies, show us, that beyond the birth of a new life, a whole
social universe conditions already the future life of the baby.
