Cozette Griffin-Kremer
Docteure en études celtiques
griffin.kremer@wanadoo.fr
Champs de recherche
- le festiaire (surtout autour du Premier Mai et coutumes associées avec le muguet)
- musées d’agriculture grands et petits (et leur utilisation d’animaux de travail et mise en réseau de personnes intéressées par la traction bovine)
- traditions et savoirs populaires
- transferts techniques dans les textes médiévaux
- production laitière pré-industrielle
- ‘The Saint Lubin Festival: “performing” agriculture and stockbreeding as heritage’ in Proceedings of CIMA 20 India, 2023, forthcoming.
- ‘French Lily-of-the-Valley (muguet) festivities during the Pandemic’ for 2022 International Flores de Mayo Festival and Virtual Congress “Floral Traditions in the Time of Pandemic”, 2-6 May 2022, The Flora Project with University of the Philippines Manila and Philippine Botanic Artists Society. Publication online forthcoming.
- ‘A tradition of invention.’ In Irina Stahl (invited ed.) The Ritual Year, no.13 - City Rituals, Part 1, reuniting the proceedings of the 13th Conference of the Ritual Working Group in Bucharest, Romania, 7-9 November 2018, forthcoming.
- ‘Naught, Knot or Loop’ in Bulletin of the International String Figure Association, Vol. 30, 2023, 93-119.
- ‘Hunting Frame Strings: Variations of Two Pacific Island String Figures’ in Bulletin of the International String Figure Association, Vol. 29, 2022, 119-137.
- ‘Eye-to-eye with animal draft in France – a case study in a broader ecosystem’ in Draft Animals in the Past, Present and Future. Print version: Heidelberg University, 2022, 79-86, also available online at https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeum/catalog/book/1120?lang=en
- ‘Back to the Future. Squaring folk life and cultural diversity at the Alsace Ecomuseum’ in Folk Life 2020, Vol. 58, No.1, 57-66.
- ‘Review: A place for hay: flexibility and continuity in hay meadow management’ full volume of MARTOR The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Journal 21/2016, in Folk Life, Vol. 57, N°2, October 2019, pp. 142-143.
- ‘Animal energy in the ‘Theatre of Agriculture’ at the Alsace Ecomuseum, France’’, in Traditions and Change – Sustainable Futures, Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Agricultural Museums, Tartu, Estonia, May 2017, print version, pp. 210-218.
- ‘Immigrant Integration through Festival: Technical Prowess, Empowerment and Inclusion’ in Lietuvos Etnologija (Lithuanian Ethnography) Studies in Social Anthropology and Tehnology. Vilnius, 16(25), 2016, 55-68.
- ‘Tracking change – lily-of-the-valley custom and festival in France’ in Folk Life, Vol. 53, N°1, May 2015, 1-18.
- ‘Recension: African Wax and Straw Jewellry by Anne Dyer’, 2014, in Folk Life, Vol. 54, N°1, May 2016, pp. 72-73.
- ‘Museum collections and intangible heritage – oxdrivers and projects, for François Sigaut, in memoriam’ in Edouard de Laubrie, Guylaine Bouvÿ-Thabourey, Pierre Del Porto (eds.) Agriculture Collections – a new dynamic, Proceedings of CIMA XVII, 2015, 48-51.
- ‘Doing Things Rightways and Three Times. From Maying Practices to Standard Procedures’ in The Ritual Year 10: Magic in Rituals and Rituals in Magic. Edited by Tatiana Minniyakhmetova and Kamila Velkoborská, Innsbruck – Tartu 2015, 121-129.
- ‘Un toit de plumes… expression imagée ou aperçu d'une réalité? (Irlande)’ Journée d’étude organisée par Colette Méchin, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 22 mai 2014, in Ethnozootechnie N°96, 2014, 79-84.
- ‘A bruising experience: tools to soften furze (Ulex spp.) for fodder’ in Patricia C. Anderson, Carole Cheval et Aline Durand (dir.) Regards croisés sur les outils liés au travail des végétaux, An interdisciplinary focus on plant-working tools. Actes des XXXIIIe Rencontres Internationales d’Archéologie et d’Histoire d’Antibes, Antibes: Editions APDCA, 2013, 355-366.
- ‘Working with Oxen in France and Beyond: Museums as Crossroads’ in Folk Life, Journal of Ethnological Studies, Vol. 50, N°2, 2012, 169-192.
- ‘Wooing and Works: an episode on yoking oxen in the Tochmarc Étaine’ in Eolas, The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies, Vol. 4, 2010, 54-85.
- ‘French muguet customs: recording change’, Folk Life, Journal of Ethnological Studies, Vol. 49, N° 1, 2011, 75-87.
- ‘French Muguet Customs and Permutations in the Ritual Year’ in Cosmos Vol. 25, 2009, 145-154.
- ‘Dynamics of Informal Networking : Two Studies of Cattle Draft in the Perspective of Deeper Time’ in International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol. 15, N° 2-3, March-May 2009, 192-208.
- ‘La voix qui lie. Les relations entre humains et bovins vues à travers les chansons. Irlande, Écosse, Pays de Galles’, in Ethnozootechnie N° 84, 2009, 73-79.
- ‘Du joug de tête au joug de garrot. Récit mythique et changement technique?’ dans la Revue de la Société d’Ethnozootechnie, No. 79, 2007, 51-67.
- ‘May Day and Mayhem. Portraits of a Holiday in Eighteenth-Century Dublin Ballads’ in Thomas McKean (ed.) The Flowering Thorn. International Ballad Studies, Salt Lake City: Utah State University Press, 2004, 101-130.
- ‘Recension de Trevor Owen (ed.) From Corrib to Cultra. Folklife Essays in Honour of Alan Gailey’ Belfast: The Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University of Belfast, 2000, in Folk Life, Vol. 41, 2002-2003, 133-135.
- ‘A Bridge Between Worlds: A Sampling of May Day Festival Foods’ in Patricia Lysaght (ed.) Food and Celebration, From Fasting to Feasting, Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the International Commission for Ethnological Food Research. Ljubljana: Zalozba ZRC and The Department of Irish Folklore, University College Dublin, 2002, 305-316.
(NB ces articles étaient tous soumis à un comité de lecture désigné par le/les éditeur/s)
- ‘Regulating lily-of-the-valley (muguet) festivals in France on the national and local levels’ in Hugoson, M., McKean, T. A., Sedakova, I. & Lyle, E. (Eds.). (2021). The Ritual Year 12: Regulating Customs, Elphinstone Institute / University of Aberdeen, 141-160, https://inslav.ru/publication/ritual-year-12-m-2021
- ‘Engaging with the living heritage of local breeds’ in Proceedings of the AIMA 2021 Congress hosted online by the MERL/Museum of English Rural Life, Reading, England, 58-65. Publication online at https://usercontent.one/wp/www.agriculturalmuseums.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/AIMA_2021_Proceedings-TheMERL-published-June2023.pdf
- ‘Silverweed: a food plant on the road from wild to cultivated?’ Article 5.5 in Chapter 5, G.S. Cruz-García, F. Ertuğ (eds.), Food plants from the wild, in Alexander Chevalier, Elena Marinova and Leonor Peña-Chocarro (eds.) EARTH 1: Plants and People, Choices and diversity through time, Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2014, 242-249.
- ‘Introduction’ to Chapter 6 ‘A Versatile World, Examples of Diversity in Plant Use’, in Alexander Chevalier, Elena Marinova and Leonor Peña-Chocarro (eds.) Plants and People, Choices and diversity through time, Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2014, 266-269.
- ‘Humble plants: uses of furze and nettles in the British Isles (and beyond)’, in Plants and People, Choices and diversity through time, Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2014, 270-275 (supra).
- ‘Conclusion’ to Chapter 6 in Plants and People, Choices and diversity through time, Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2014, 305-306, (supra).
- ‘Festive use of plants: a diachronic glimpse of May Day in the British Isles, France and slightly beyond’, Article 8.4 in Chapter 8: Plant use in ceremonial contexts in Plants and People, Choices and diversity through time, Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2014, 354-360.
- ‘Political ‘creatures’: the Lily-of-the-Valley Festival in Rambouillet, France’ in Gábor Barna and István Povedák (eds) Politics, Feasts, Festivals, Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the SIEF Working Group on the Ritual Year / Szeged, Hungary, 14-16 March, 2013, Szeged: Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, 2014.
- ‘Museums’ role in the transmission of intangible heritage: working with cattle and other draught animals’ in Urszula Nowakowsak (ed.) Living Animals in Museums’ Activity / Proceedings of the Colloquium Living Animals in Museums, 4-5 October 2013, Szreniawa: National Museum of Agriculture and Food Industry, Szreniawa, Poland, 2013, 141-166.
- ‘Working with Cattle in Museums: Resources and Potentials’, in Hanna Ignatowicz and Urszula Siekacz-Nowakowska (coor.) International Conference Proceedings of Missions and options for development of agricultural museums in the contemporary world, Szreniawa, 25-26 September, 2009, 2010, 147-154.
- ‘Working with Cattle in Museums: Resources and Potentials’, Published in Polish ‘Muzea I przekazywanie niematerialnego dziedzictwa, Przypadek pracującego bydla’ in Rocznik, Revue Annuelle du. Musée National de l’Histoire de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation, Szreniawa, Pologne, Tom 26, 2009, 33-44. (Translation of preceding article)
- ‘Museums and the transmission of intangible heritage. The case of working cattle’ in Iz istorije poljoprivrede, Proceedings of the CIMA XV Conference, ICOM, AIMA, Godiste XV-IVI, 2008, 76-81.
- ‘The French muguet (lily-of-the-valley) in song’ in Dace Bula and Sigrid Rieuwerts (eds.) Singing the Nations: Herder’s Legacy. BASIS (Ballads and Songs International Studies) Vol. 4, Trier : Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2008, 231-241.
- ‘Le Jour de Mai: délices et délits. Un portrait insolite au travers de trois ballades populaires dublinoises’ in Yvon Tranvouez et al, (eds.) Langues de l’Histoire, Langues de la Vie. Mélanges Offerts à Fañch Roudaut. Brest, Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique, 2005.
- ‘Bovine bodies and the domestication of the human mind’ in Luisa Del Guidice and Gerald Porter (eds.) Imagined States. Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2001, 167-192.
- ‘Mains chéries, les ustensiles laitiers au seuil de la fluidification en Grande Bretagne et en Irlande’ in par Marie-Claire Bataille-Benguigui et Françoise Cousin (eds.) Cuisines, reflets des sociétés. Paris, Éditions Sépia/Musée de l’Homme, 1996, 31-44.
- Rencontre des bouviers allemands – TEMPÊTE médiatique pour le veau Goofy in Sabots N°101, Mars-Avril 2021, 52-56.
- Les Bœufs au Travail, vingt ans après – et demain – une note personnelle in Ethnozootechnie N°107 en ligne, 2020, 9 pp, http://www.ethnozootechnie.org/IMG/pdf/_cle0fcd21-251.pdf
- Lier tradition et innovation: les bouviers allemands se réunissent au Bois du Soleil (février 2019) in Sabots N°94, jan.-fév. 2020, 54-59.
- A world of real alternatives – the Festival of the Nantaise Cow and working animals today in Heavy Horse World, Winter 2018, p. 69.
- L’Écomusée d’Alsace - La Mecque des Bouviers in Sabots magazine, N°85, mars-avril 2018, 33-39.
- La traction bovine : son savoir-faire et son faire savoir, à l’invitation des bouviers allemands in Sabots N°84, mai-juin 2018, 41-47.
- Les chars de la fête du muguet à Rambouillet, souvenirs et avenirs, in Fêtons le Muguet, Actes de la Journée de rencontres, samedi 24 mars 2018, La Lanterne de Rambouillet, 72-82.
- ‘Muguet! Lily-of-the-Valley in France’ on request for Roy Vickery, Plant-Lore Collecting the folklore and uses of plants, online publication at
Article link as of 3 May 2016: http://www.plant-lore.com/plantofthemonth/muguet-lily-of-the-the-valley-in-france/ - ‘Chez les bouviers allemands, d’hier et d’aujourd’hui’ in Sabots Traditions & Animaux du Terroir N° 64, Jan.-Fév. 2015, 40-42.
- ‘Les bouviers fêtent les 30 ans de l’Écomusée d’Alsace’ in Sabots Traditions & Animaux du Terroir N° 64, Jan.-Fév. 2015, 36-39.
- ‘Le réseau international Bœufs au travail' in Sabots Traditions & Animaux du Terroir N° 62, Sep-Oct 2014, 34-39.
- ‘Sauvegarde et promotion de la traction bovine: un pont franco-allemand. Une convergence de réseaux’ in Sabots magazine N° 36, mai-juin 2010, 34-35.
- ‘Ici on fait des liens, 4e Rencontres des Bouviers d’Alsace et d’Ailleurs’ in Sabots N° 31, juillet-août, 2009.
- ‘Le bœuf reconnaît son bouvier’ in Sabots N° 29, mars-avril, 2009, 16-20.
- ‘Le briolage, un art qui se porte bien’, Rapport sur le week-end “Briolages et Traction Animale” dans le cadre du FAIR (Festival Animalier International de Rambouillet), septembre 2006, in Sabots, Traditions et Animaux de Terroir, N°. 16, 5, 52-53 (3 photos).
- ‘Rencontre des bouviers d’ici et d’ailleurs’, 1re Rencontre des Bouviers, Écomusée d’Alsace, in Sabots N° 12, mai-juin 2006, 11.
- ‘L’engagement de l’AFMA sur le plan international : promotion des musées à travers les relations entre les chercheurs et les experts en savoir-faire traditionnels’ in Agrimuse, No. 1, revue de l’AFMA (Association française des musées d’agriculture et du patrimoine rural), mars 2006.
- ‘Muguet and May Day: Lily-of-the-valley in contemporary French customs’ in Roy Vickery, ed. Plant-Lore Notes & News, No. 85, May 2005, 411-413.
- ‘La Rencontre Internationale d’Alzen: les enjeux du travail avec les animaux pour les écomusées’ in Lettre de l’AFMA, février 2005.
- ‘Compte-rendu de la Rencontre Internationale d’Alzen : traction bovine et asine’ in Lettre de la Société d’Ethnozootechnie, février 2005.
- ‘Alzen capitale des bœufs de travail’ in Sabots, N° 10, printemps 2005.
- ‘World experts watch cattle and mules yoked for work in France’ in Heavy Horse World, Spring 2005.
‘Images du bovin : traditions littéraires et populaires dans les pays celtiques insulaires’ in L’Animal et l’Imaginaire, Actes du Colloque du Festival Animalier International de Rambouillet. Rambouillet: La Bergerie Nationale, 2002, 93-114. - ‘Animal, paysage, patrimoine’ in L’Animal et l’Imaginaire, Actes du Colloque du Festival Animalier International de Rambouillet. Rambouillet: La Bergerie Nationale, 2002, 17-18.