The authors
Qhapaq Ñan, a geo-photographic and documentary inventory of the inca road system (2007-2010) :
- Written by : Sébastien Jallade (GPS localization, photos, videos, sound/interview/oral memories and texts)
- Scientific supervision : Olivier Archambeau (research program design and supervision )
- Project assistant : Marina Jouy (GPS localization and cardinal points)
- Head of Internet project : Stéphane Felut-Paris
We wish to thank Aurélia Frey, Stéphane Pachot, Yannick Vernet, Léïla Bouafia and Marc Robert for their support.
Sébastien Jallade
Sébastien Jallade is a journalist and author of documentary films who graduated from the University of Paris-10 and Paris-1 Sorbonne. He first started trekking on the Qhapaq Ñan in 2007. For six months, he walked 1,200 kilometers along the Great Inca Road and carried out recorded over thirty hours of sound recordings and interviews in the heart of the Andes. In 2008 and 2009, he undertook the geo-photographic and documentary inventory of 3,000 kilometers of the Qhapaq Ñan in Peru and Bolivia. He walked through the Peruvian Andes from west to east, from Zaňa to Chachapoyas, then from north to south, from Cajamarca to Paria (Bolivia) via Cusco, Lake Titicaca and La Paz (Bolivia).Sébastien Jallade has written , L’Appel de la route. Petite mystique du voyageur en partance (Transboréal, Paris, 2009). He is also the co-author of a film, Qhapaq Ñan, la voix des Andes, (Elkin, 2009). He is now working on another documentary film about an Andean community radio in the cordillera of Vilcabamba and Rio Urubamba valley in the Peruvian Amazon region. He published his inventory in the website http://www.Qhapaq-nan.org in may 2010.http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sébastien_Jallade
Olivier Archambeau
Associate Professor at the University of Paris-VIII and researcher at the CNRS (Department of Geography). In 2006, he set the basis for the geo-photographic inventory of the great historical and mythical roads of the world. The main thrust of this research program is applying a geographic methodology to build a comprehensive iconographic inventory of landscapes and human activities along these roads. Olivier Archambeau is also the President of the Society of French Explorers and the founder of Expéditions Géographiques Françaises and of the Pôle image of the University of Paris-VIII, Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France.
Pôle Image of the University of Paris-VIII, Vincennes-Saint-Denis
“The geo-photographic inventory of the main roads of the world is a research program directed by Olivier Archambeau in the framework of the Pôle Image of the research unit, "Territories, environments and societies", section 23 of the University of Paris-VIII, Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France. Here.
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