Abstract
This article explores the career of the ethnographer-missionary Henri-Alexandre Junod (1863-1934). Besides living and working in South Africa, Junod lived for many years in Mozambique. Today, one of the contemporary symptoms of Junod's legacy still appears in the so-called multicultural debate, in which the tension between civilization and culture is manifested under apparently opposing demands: one universalist (that of social integration) the other relativist (that of cultural recognition). Today, the policies on bilingual education, the process of constrution of a multi-ethnical society and the national identity dilemmas of "post-socialist" Mozambique, cannot be understood without a systematic and renewed reflection on his work.
Keywords
Mozambique; South Africa; civilization; culture; Junod