EXCERPT A revival is the renewal, in a given culture, of one of its former practices or expressive forms that has fallen into disuse. The renewal implies a conscious effort to reproduce this older practice, to adhere to its genuine specificities. It emphasises fidelity to the original features of the revived art or practice over the newcomers’ capacity for innovation. Once the practice or the expressive form has been considered as lost and worthy of being restored to life, its revival would be the reinjection of a piece of past culture into the present culture, like a transplant of a dead part of culture into its living body as a way to revive this very body…