Laughter was often the subject of theoretical reflection. In contrast, studies on the specific historical constellations of laughter in pre-modern times are almost completely absent. This volume is dedicated to this deficit. Historical laughter can be inferred from laughter. Values and taboos emerge...

I thank my friends of Creis-Terminal for giving an old data protection fighter the opportunity to be here today and I will start with a few historical setbacks. I refer to what had been written with a prophetic eye by Alexis de Tocqueville some time before the Communist Party Manifesto was published...

, which is different from other contemporary forms of domesticity, elitarian domesticity, serving particularly wealthy families, is a privileged place to study the effects of gender diversity in the context of social confrontation in permanent domestic work. It requires employees to be acculturated...

Based on a comparative approach, this article aims to analyse the architecture produced for the regional exhibition held in Rome in 1911 (as part of the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the unification of Italy), in the light of the political pedagogy initiated by the government during t...

It is possible to distinguish on the surface of the land from homogeneous regions by their physical or human traits: the regional perspective plays a key role in the traditional rural world and facilitates knowledge and good administration. With the development of the modern economy, major cities ar...

Claude Dubar’s book begins as a relatively classic sociology book on the general theme of cultural and social modernisation and ends as a political and moral reflection on identities, the conditions for their formation and recognition. Between the two terms of this pathway, the author offers clear a...

The Garifuna, the products of the conflict between Africans and indigenous Caribes during the colonial period, have been living since the 18th century on the Caribbean coastline of four Central American countries (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua). Following a steady migration process that...

Based on 19 months of anthropological field research and 70 in-depth interviews in 2004-2006, Constructing China’s Jerusalem presents a rich, detailed, and particularly nuanced ethnography of the daily practices of Christianity in the city of Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, where over ten percent of the...

The Emperor’s figure and its methods of remembrance were particularly studied, the provinces of the Greek part of the empire and the diversity of political, social, economic and religious approaches to the control of a capital city-state of empire, and Roman law, from the stages of its codification...

during his career, George Akerlof — Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 — continuously sought to amend standard economic theory to bring it closer to the facts. In 1970, with ‘The Market for ‘Lemons’: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism’, it paved the way for the study of information asymmetr...

contemporaneity presents us with a wide discussion on various topics that are part of the social context, and are necessarily discussed in the classroom. Society as a whole, through communication vehicles, has been talking much about gênery and sexuality, and working on these issues in the education...

This book consists of a range of essays covering the complex crises, tensions and dilemmas but also the positive potential in the meeting of Jews with Western culture. In numerous contexts and through the work of fascinating individuals and thinkers, the work examines some of the consequences of pol...

1. Introduction Since the first Brizola government (1983-87) in the city of Rio de Janeiro, there was an association between the public school and the poor, as a result of the implementation of the Special Education Programme by the Darcy Ribeiro Department of Education. The programme sought to brid...

This study analyses the period before the dissolution of Czechoslovakia and provides several additional explanations for the divorce of Czechoslovak velvet. It discusses the challenges facing an independent Slovakia, while taking stock of economic development, foreign affairs guidelines and the crys...

The dream of the Community's founding fathers was, ultimately, to see the emergence of a European identity. That does not mean that European identity should replace national identities but that it should become strong enough, and be perceived as ' inclusive ' enought by European citizens, for Europe...

'pbThe hypermarket... beyond its obvious economic role, it has become the last place of diversity in our contemporary societies, a sort of (post-) modern market place. It is also the perfect reflection of the profound changes that call into question the economic sustainability and social utility of...

International audience The indigenous population, with their rich culture and heritage, represent an important component of Indian and Himalayan civilizations. Politics of Ethnicity in India, Neapal and China reviews the social, cultural and political processes that have shaped these indigenous soci...

International audience The currency "united in diversity" also means "no Europe without diversity", starting with that of national identities. A first element of this diversity has its roots in history since the states that make up Europe have an extremely variable national seniority. Secondly, they...

The idea of diversity has become, in the face of the growing affirmation of identities, a significant phenomenon especially in societies from European colonialism, where groups and individuals reaffirm their local particularities, ethnic, racial, cultural or religious identities, drawing the attenti...

All continents, Europe is the one whose definition is regularly the most controversial. Where does it start? Where does it stop? This geopolitics of Europe deals with the composite territory from the Atlantic to the wider Russia. Its configuration has been profoundly reshaped since the end of the Co...

Mimicry's role in the way social identities are constructed and deconstructed has considerably enriched our understanding of various power relations. However, as a spatial practice, mimicry has received scant consideration. In what ways can space itself become an object of mimicry? What strategies a...

reading report by Raul Matta, published in the magazine anthropology of Food (2014): AYORA-DIAZ S.I., Foodscapes, Foodfields and Identities in Yucatán (2012), CEDLA Latin American Studies 99, Berghahn Books [Amsterdam] 332p. Reading the latest book by Steffan Igor Ayora-Díaz, Professor of anthropolo...

National audience The SYAL refers to a form of organisation and a local development process based on a spatial concentration of agri-food units (farms, agri-food companies, service, marketing, catering companies) that enables them to structure themselves around a common activity. The current process...