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Jack Goody’s Historical Anthropology

by Thomas Grillot & translated by John Zvesper, 4 February

A highly respected figure in African studies, Jack Goody has become a distinctive voice in the torrent of academic critiques of western ethnocentrism. His work, spanning more than sixty years, (...)

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Freedom as Anxiety

About: Thomas Blom Melancholia of Freedom: Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa, Princeton University Press, 2012

by Juliette Galonnier, 14 November 2012

Almost two decades after the end of apartheid, South Africa still displays high levels of racial segregation. Studying the South African Indian minority, Thomas Blom helps us understand why (...)

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The Power of Images

by Cristelle Terroni, 30 July 2012

How do images shape our worldview ? What do their study bring to our understanding of society ? Through interviews, essays and reviews this dossier shows how the close study of still or moving (...)

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Louis Dumont’s Political Thought

by Vincent Descombes & translated by John Zvesper, 17 April 2012

Louis Dumont is very well known for his anthropological work on India, but rather less for his political thought. Vincent Descombes emphasizes the substantial originality of that thought, which (...)

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What Images Show

An Interview with Philippe Descola

by Philippe Simay & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 5 April 2012

The curator of the recent La fabrique des images exhibit at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, anthropologist Philippe Descola offers a new approach of pictorial representations on the five (...)

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Collecting as Infatuation

by Philippe Simay, 9 February 2011

What is it that drives the collector of primitive art? According to a new study carried out by two ethnologists it is neither a taste for speculation nor acquisitiveness but rather an intuitive (...)

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The Culture of Poverty Reconsidered

About: D. J. Harding, M. Lamont, M. L. Small, dir., Reconsidering Culture and Poverty, The Annals.

by Nicolas Duvoux, 6 October 2010

A special issue of the journal Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science edited by the American sociologists David J. Harding, Michèle Lamont, and Mario L. Small examines the (...)

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Lévy-Bruhl and the Problem of Contradiction

About: F. Keck, Lévy-Bruhl, CNRS Éditions.

by Gildas Salmon, 12 February 2009

Lévy-Bruhl has a bad reputation. Beyond what is needed to dismiss it and indignantly condemn such concepts as that of primitive mentality, very little is in general known about his work. Frédéric (...)

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Essay against giving

by Pascal Sévérac, 22 April 2008

Essay against giving: using the Spinozist concept of conatus (striving) to analyse the self-serving structure of giving in all its guises, Lordon offers a worthy mix of philosophy and social (...)

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