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West African Migrations to Italy: An Anthropological Analysis of Ghanaian and Senegalese Politics of Mobility in Emilia Romagna
In this article we combine a mobility perspective with a biographical approach to explore the Italian experience of Ghanaian and Senegalese migration emphasising expectations, obstacles and practices in contexts of uncertainty and precariousness. First, we provide readers with an historical backgrou...
The Utopian Body in Film. Transparency, Reversibility, Hybridity
The utopian body in film, under discussion in this thesis, does not refer to an object of thought borrowed from Michel Foucault and applied to some dematerialised or extraordinary bodies on the screen, but to a heuristic tool for considering the historical and aesthetic modalities through which the...
Ousmane Bakary, Exil and Culture. Ethnic genocide, fractures, deuil and identity reconstruction
This book takes up a doctoral thesis in anthropology supported at Laval University on this crucial issue: how do people forced to exile as a result of violent experience such as war or genocide succeed in carrying out their work of bereaving and rebuilding identity in their host society? Forced into...
Announcement: Support of Kyung-mi KIM’s thesis, Friday 22 June
Bonday, I am pleased to invite you to support my doctoral thesis in ethnology and social anthropology: The construction of the identity category “woman married to a foreigner” in South Korean society: from its emergence to the birth of the World-KIMWA Federation (1945-2006) Support will take place o...
Log or Linear? Distinct Intuitions of the Number Scale in Western and Amazonian Indigene Cultures
International audience The mapping of numbers onto space is fundamental to measurement and to mathematics. Is this mapping a cultural invention, or a universal intuition shared by all humans regardless of culture and education? We probed number-space mappings in the Mundurucu, an Amazonian indigene...
Emploi * ATER EHESS
L'EHESS publie 8 offres de postes d'Attachés temporaires d'enseignement et de recherche (ATER) à mi-temps à compter du 1er septembre 2020 pour une durée d’un an, voir ici. Les candidatures se font exclusivement en ligne via l’interface emploi de l’EHESS. Anthropologie Analyse et politique économique...
Martha Nussbaum’s approach to the multicultural challenges of the western liberal societies
At the confluence of rawlsian political liberalism and neoaristotelician anthropology, Martha Nussbaum’s captivity approach provides a theoretical framework for responding to multicultural tensions. This article is a detailed analysis of Nussbaum’s response to these challenges, which purports to uni...
Interests of the variability of the human bone loss in the estimation of the age in forensic anthropology
The study carried out concerned to the determination of the age from investigations on the human alveolar bone loss. The lack of reliability of the tie epithelial as indicator of age and the absence of correlation of the transparency of the dentin on whole or cut teeth demonstrated the interest of a...
Values and materiality
If social life is guided by a variety of values, sometimes conflicting, they become visible in the things that people produce, exchange and collect. How is the diversity of values diminished in the heterogeneity of the subject matter in order to give it a social consistency? How does the materiality...
4 years of experience with the ANR
at the end of November 2009 will conclude the EMMA “Young Researchers/Young Researchers” programme (“For a historical anthropology of emotions in the Western Middle Ages”) funded by the National Research Agency. It is obviously not the end of EMMA, which continues to exist with the support of other...
Pillsbury, Joanne (ed.). Documentary sources for the Andean studies, 1530-1900
This monumental work is a sort of encyclopaedia containing inputs from History, Language, Anthropology, Archaeology, Literature, Geography and Demography to improve knowledge of the ‘Andean world’. Originally published in English in 2008, this edition in Spanish, which is properly updated, makes a r...
Classic Concepts in Anthropology
The late anthropologist Valerio Valeri (1944–98) was best known for his substantial writings on societies of Polynesia and eastern Indonesia. This volume, however, presents a lesser-known side of Valeri’s genius through a dazzlingly erudite set of comparative essays on core topics in the history of...
Anthropology of the ordinary
to what extent does the anthropological observation of the persons concerned not support declassification? By imposing overwhelming positions or overly broad classifications, the risk is to help stifle their voice a little more. This contribution proposes to produce analyses to see downgrading as in...
Christophe Batsch, MEU-level lina Vârtejanu-Joubert (Ed.), Manières to think in Mediterranean and Eastern Antiquity
C. Batsch and Mr Vârtejanu-Joubert produced a great amount of tribute to Francis Schmidt, whose importance of work for Jewish studies was first recalled. Echoing the main interests of Francis Schmidt (historiography, comparatism and historical anthropology), the publishers gathered 15 texts from Ant...
Guy Bordin, On dance only at night. Festivals at the Inuit of the North of the Earth of Baffin
This beautiful book published by the Société d’ethnologie de Nanterre is part of the ‘Anthropology of the Night’ collection led by Aurore Monod Becquelin. He reproduces the motto of Guy Bordin’s doctoral thesis, filed in 2008, on the Inuit Night of Mittimatalik, located north of the 72th parallel on...
Shot and never seen again Shot and never seen again: Videotapes as waste and merchandise in post-socialist Romania
International audience What if videotapes were considered as either waste or commodityto be forgotten, or sold and reused and re-recorded? This is the question raised by this text, which gives an account of a multi-sited ethnographic project that follows the human and material circulation of amateur...
RDV of IFEA: Presentation by Silvia Romio
“Next the way”. The construction of the political identity of the Awajún of the Peruvian Amazon (1920-1980) In the context of the “Rendees of the IFEA”, carried out with the support of the French Embassy in Peru and the IRD, Silvia Romio (EHESS, Paris) presented a conference at the Alliance Français...
Fugitive Knowledge : The Loss and Preservation of Knowledge in Cultural Contact Zones
Encounters between cultures are also encounters between knowledge systems. This volume brings together a number of case studies that explore how some knowledge in cultural contact zones becomes transient, evanescent, and ephemeral. The essays examine various aspects of cultural, especially colonial,...
‘Current care in the eyes of anthropologists’, magazine Ethnopharmacologia
The magazine Ethnopharmacologia has just published its 58th issue, which contains a special file entitled ‘Current care in the eyes of anthropologists’. The dossier is coordinated by Déborah Kessler-Bilthauer. Summary of issue 58 (October 2017) "Introduction: an anthropology of health to grasp thera...
Therapeutic salad and its typology
--- > In popular European medicine, therapeutic salmo is of major importance. Although always linked to a credential or empirical procedure, it is subject to the same laws as may be observed in other genders of traditional oral literature. The aim of this work was to draw up a typology of therapeuti...
Environmental governance in Sri Lanka. Speech, implementation and local ownership of nature conservation policies in Hambantota district.
the approach developed in this thesis is in the field of political anthropology. It aims to combine a calder approach with the tools of socio-anthropology of development in a study of development and nature conservation policies in Hambantota District, South Sri Lanka. The first part of the thesis l...
Sentithink mapuche with the waters of Huenehue: Towards a political ecology and a demand-driven anthropology
Biodiversity has been significantly devastated by extractivist activities in territories inhabited by indigenous peoples. This article originates from the anthropological report that was ‘challenged’ by the Leufu Wueneywue Association, which was carried out in Tralcapulli and Llongahue (Los Ríos Reg...
Post-doctoral contract 2015-2016 (cut-off dates 28 juin 2015)
L’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne propose, dans le cadre de sa Chaire de dialogue des cultures (Paris 1/al-Imam), un contrat de recherche post-doctoral du 1er septembre 2015 au 30 juin 2016. Date limite des candidatures : 28 juin 2015. Éligibilité Le/la candidat/e doit être titulaire d’un docto...
Minutes of the meeting: Pierre Bouvier, The long route of Senegalese tires
This report on Pierre Bouvier’s work was drawn up by Fassou David Condé, a Master’s degree in the mention of Political Studies. The long walking of Senegalese tires: from the Great War to Independence is a book by Pierre Bouvier, Professor Emeritus of Universities, member of the Laios (Anthropology...
The Internado de Villa de las Niñas as an emotional community
From the anthropology of emotions, the narrative of the patient and the notion of emotional communities, coined in the field of the history of emotions, I intend to show, through ethnographic data from in-depth interviews, the main explanations that a group of ex-students from a religious detainee i...