Word: garnier
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...helm, he expanded marketing into the U.S. and Japan, in part by taking the then radical step of selling products in retail stores rather than only hair salons. Later he signed licensing deals with designers like Guy Laroche and oversaw the acquisition of such prestige brands as Lancôme, Garnier and Biotherm...
...Before the arrival of missionaries and magistrates, the Sepik people were ferocious warriors and enthusiastic gatherers and keepers of heads, which held special significance for them. According to French anthropologist Nicolas Garnier, who has spent lengthy periods living among the tribes, the head was a sacred trophy. Some time after a dead ancestor had been buried, the now-fleshless skull would be exhumed. A relative, guided by apparitions of the dead person, would then overmodel the original features onto the bones...
...Those heads, considered as the living presence of powerful ancestors, could have been used for magical purposes, in warfare in particular,'' says Garnier. When a warrior had taken a head he would now be "a respected man, able to cover his body in black paint, a sign of homicide." The victim's head was boiled in a special pot to release the flesh and tendons. Then, after it had been appropriately adorned, it would be displayed alongside the heads of ancestors. Head-hunting is no longer practiced - it was firmly discouraged by the first Christian missionaries - so the remaining skulls...
...Sometimes, however, it's the collectors who are the ones conned. The skilled carvers of the Sepik are also master forgers - and skulls feature prominently in their repertoire. Anthropologist Garnier examined images of the seized skulls for Time, and believes they are, as Stuttgen claims, modern imitations. Should they prove to be genuine, he says they could be worth more than $12,000 in Europe, especially in the Netherlands, which has become a clearing house for such items. Even if they are not ancient items, however, the bones have to be sourced from somewhere. Eoe says the villagers may have...
...weekends or evenings, when, according to lawyers, much of the prostitution trade occurred. Yet officials say their social services are not under scrutiny. "The mission of social workers isn't to control families or be policemen within families, but just to help with families who are in difficulty," says Garnier, the local council official. While officials continue to say they did nothing wrong, the rumblings about institutional failure finally exploded earlier this month when police officers took the stand to explain what went wrong. Le Monde said Angers' police and judges were using "evasive justifications" about why they missed more...