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Le Dahomey cérémoniel: Le cinéma de Francis Aupiais. Proche et Moyen Orient Atlas aloneFilmed in Dahomey (present day Benin) in 1930 by missionary and ethnologist Francis Aupiais with his cameraman Frdric Gadmer, as part of the Archives de la Plante program created by businessman Albert Kahn, the two film collections "Christian Dahomey" and "Religious Dahomey" clearly distinguish between the rituals of a "pagan" world and those of a world in the process of Christianization. By bringing these two bodies of work into dialogue, Gaetano