Isabelle Riaboff
During more than 15 years, Isabelle Riaboff conducted research in the high Tibetan-speaking valleys of the Western Himalayas, in particular in Zanskar and Kinnaur. Among other topics, her research focused on the relations between religion and politics on the one hand, and on the identity issues on the other hand.
Between 1998 and 2007, she was in charge of teaching in various high education institutions: the Institut des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), the University of Paris 7-Denis Diderot and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etdues (EPHE). She also worked as translator, participated as speaker in a large number of international seminars (in Gremany, Austria, the United Kingdom, the USA, the Netherlands and Canada) and she led several public conferences as well as educational workshops.
Today, Isabelle aims at contributing to promote the exceptional heritage which is constitued by the Moroccan handweaving of figured fabric, by investigating the following three dimensions:
- first of all, ethnological, the culture of the Fassi weavers remaining alive, with specific ways of being, forms of speech, and know-how;
- then, sociological, through the study of the various craft corporations which were formerly linked to silk weaving in Fez, and the study of the present situation of these specialists;
- lastly, historical, around the question of the influences, in terms of technics and style, which the Andalusian and French weaving traditions have had on the Fassi weaving of figured fabric.
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