It’s almost impossible to talk about this quite unknown thinker. Before any consideration the reader must to know Jean-Michel Chabineau. He had huge influence in Federalists thinkers as well as in early north american poetry. Nowadays this author is on focus because of his strongest innovations in the social (and now sports) sciences. In order to create a new perspective concerning the man as a whole, the philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, and the new school of Liverpool Literature reinvented (as wrongly as possible) the ideas of Chabineau taking the concepts of “transfused place”, “unforgettable moment” and “unbelievable true” in others pathways. Among them, John Chipsantufinf, Maverick Nelson, Striped Horhernberg, Franz James and the main one Judith Aron. The structure of Chabineau’s work is based “in the out-structure of life in a way to reach the ‘real’ unreal place of self experience in the world of nature and things” as he wrote (J-M Chabineau, 1837 Apud J. Aron, 2008: pp. 474).
The influent Chabineau’s work in the thought of these authors was From the Largest Way of New Man (translated from the French edition [1837] by Walt Whitman), an impressive book about the Australian aborigine fundamental life trends in religion and new cultural practices. Chabineau wrote “the new practice in the descriptions of the aborigine’s experience, for the man of Cockatoo, in those days, was like the ‘barbarians ride killing people through the lands of Middle East and Europe. Then, over the Turkish highlands, they took the revelation of a new religion dislocating from one place to another by the board’. And so, the Australian took the idea from Hawaiian Black Trunk” (J-M Chabineau Op. Cit. Apud J. Aron: pp. 477). In recent anthropological production we find his echoes in Marshall S.’s world famous Histories of Islands about the myth of Lono’s board and the sorcery in black nights over the neophytes. Chabineau’s ethnography is an emphatic description of Australian practice, showing how they became the first people to take the board as a new public and ecologic transport.
The Man of Cockatoo from Melville Island, coast of Arnhem Land. Probably the First Unbelievable One.
That was a new practice. At that time, the aborigines translated the language of the Old Board Spirit, now the perspectives (or the contortionisms) are trying to draw this kind of ‘aura’. On the myth of the Old Spirit Chabineau wrote: “Once upon a time, a kid is playing outside home, when a great Nadia attacks him. The Old Spirit, listening to the child’s shouts, brought him the object of Civilization: the board. The kid took it flying away from Nadia’s poison and left Melville Island“. This is the way J-M Chabineau describes the ritual in his ethnography. The child became the first boarder and the Man of the Cockatoo Totem. The Demiurge!
Chabineau’s ethnography is the true work of the so called 80’s turning point of the anthropology (as they called it in the USA) criticizing the “representation” as cultural images in the “classic anthropology”. So the Bulgarian and Kazakhstan liminal origins of Chabineau shows a great influence in the anthropological thought of 80’s and the opened tendencies concerning outside research’s objects of social practice.
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