Des rythmes et des chronotopes

The aim is to grasp the question of rhythms through an anthropological approach to the experience of urban time as it has emerged from various surveys conducted in Paris and its metropolitan region. Questioning the modalities by which certain "inhabitants" (residents and temporary residents) describe their experiences from a temporal point of view, reveals a set of elements capable of characterizing, qualifying and giving substance to the concrete and/or sensitive modalities through which an experience of time takes shape [...]

Le jeu de rôle comme espace potentiel : contribution à une anthropologie de l’enchantement

In this article, we would like to contribute to the drawing of the contours of enchantment as a concept by confronting it to the scene of tabletop role playing game. To this end, we will defend the hypothesis that role playing game could be approached as an enchantment device (dispositif d’enchantement), itself considered as a « potential space » (Belin, 2002) framing and encouraging the emergence of an extra-daily experience. At first, we will discuss the environment of the [...]

Alfred Métraux, ethnologue à l’UNESCO (1947-1963).

Alfred Métraux, Swiss-American ethnologist, worked for UNESCO from 1947 until his death in 1963. This article analyzes three UNESCO programs in which he was deeply involved : the « fundamental education » project in Marbial Valley (Haïti), at the end of the forties, aiming at educating Haitian peasants ; the program on the « race question » in the fifties, aiming at fighting racism, and the « andin program », also in the fifites, aiming at helping Latin American [...]

« Je suis Ferrare. »

Roche, Thierry et Guy Jungblut. 2016. Antonioni-Ferrare : Une hypothèse plausible. Liège : Yellow Now, coll. « Côté cinéma ».

Between images and anthropology, from films to inhabitants, the book explores, in the form of a dialogue – which is even better – one of the first questions of dwelling, from the perspective of Mr. Antonioni and the city of Ferrare : « What inheritance the city where we were born gives us ? ». [...]

Un terrain à histoire.

Réflexivité et construction des identités culturelles en Provence (France).

Cet article utilise un regard rétrospectif qui intègre l’histoire de l’ethnologie et de ses révisions successives pour éclairer l’ethnologisation progressive de la Provence. Ce faisant, l’ethnologisation est comprise de manière pragmatique à la fois comme un processus et un résultat, c’est-à-dire comme une lente sédimentation du savoir ethnologique qui finit par influencer à la fois le regard que les populations locales portent sur leur propre culture et les définitions qu’elles en donnent vis-à-vis des personnes — résidents temporaires ou [...]

L’Inde sans espace public.

Existe-t-il un espace public indien ?

What if India also had public spaces ? These spaces would of course be different to those we encounter in Europe on a daily basis and state as such. While the conception of public spaces, as that of cities, is struggling to assert itself in the cultural context of India, let us question, like the famous Indian poet Attipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan, the existence of an Indian public space. Far from answering a democratic, Western-minded or Eurocentred model, we aim [...]

La force de l’impact.

Paradigme théorique et réalités de terrain.

  Même si une série de publications récentes (notamment plusieurs numéros spéciaux de revues) témoignent d’une progressive légitimité du sujet, la question du tourisme a connu dans les sciences humaines françaises un démarrage difficile. Sans en retracer l’historique, je voudrais m’attarder sur l’un des facteurs explicatifs de cet essor laborieux, que ce soit en sociologie [...]