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Interweaving Eastern and Western Perspectives

About: Hans Belting, Florence et Bagdad. Une histoire du regard entre orient et occident, Paris 2012. (English translation: Hans Belting, Florence and Baghdad Renaissance Art and Arab Science, Harvard University Press, 2011.)

by Christian Joschke & translated by Nicole Forstenzer, 2 May

In Florence and Baghdad, Hans Belting writes a new history of the human gaze based on its symbolic value in relation to the image. His starting point is the cultural transfer between the East and (...)

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The Weather Factor

About: Timothy Brook, The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010

by Eiren Shea, 17 January

Timothy Brook gives a new insight into Yuan and Ming history thanks to a broad historical view enriched by climate analyses, which allows him to highlight continuities between the conventionally (...)

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Comparing Race and Caste?

About: Kamala Visweswaran, Un/common Cultures. Racism and the Rearticulation of Cultural Difference, Duke University Press.

by Roland Lardinois, 25 May 2012

The work of anthropologist Louis Dumont, who would have been 100 years old on the 1st August 2011, remains hotly debated (see a recent analysis of his political thought on this site). The latest (...)

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Dutchmen and Javanese: Connected History

About: Romain Bertrand, L’Histoire à parts égales, Seuil.

by Philippe Minard & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 19 May 2012

By reconstructing the historical circumstances in which the first contacts between the Dutch, the Malays, and the Javanese occurred at the turn of the seventeenth century, Romain Bertrand offers (...)

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Masses Taking Over The Square

About: Malte Rolf, Soviet Mass Festivals, ROSSPEN.

by Kirill Postoutenko, 2 February 2012

The ordered occupation of public spaces by the masses played a central role in the rituals of the Soviet state. Drawing on a long tradition of Russian holidays, mass festivals were supposed to (...)

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Dossiers

European Citizenship on the March

by Florent Guénard, 24 October 2011

At a time when Europe is equated with sovereign debt and political powerlessness, one should not forget that the foundations for a European citizenship have already been laid. Its potential for (...)

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Dossiers

The Culture of Poverty

by Nicolas Duvoux, 19 July 2011

In the U.S., in France as well with Hugues Lagrange’s book on “the denial of cultures”, culture has again become the focus of poverty studies. Our dossier on “culture of poverty” reviews this new (...)

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Essays

Culture of poverty and Social Resilience

An interview with Michele Lamont

by Nicolas Duvoux & Elise Tenret & Nadège Vezinat, 20 May 2011

In this interview, Michele Lamont explains different facets of her intellectual work. She comments on the cultural sociology she practices and on her urge to both understand how individuals make (...)

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The FNAC: A Story of Standardization

About : V. Chabault, La FNAC, entre commerce et culture, Puf.

by Frédérique Leblanc, 5 January 2011

How a culturally avant-garde company gradually came little-by-little to be part of Big Business: Vincent Chabault recounts the story of the FNAC, from its Trotskyite origins to the (...)

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Invisible constraints

Interview with Carlo Ginzburg

by Florent Brayard, 15 December 2010

Carlo Ginzburg, a historian specialising in witchcraft and popular beliefs, has produced an exceptional range of rich and powerful work. In this interview he looks back at his intellectual (...)

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European Union: Political Cultures, Languages and Civic Identities

About: Kraus, A Union of Diversity & Fligstein, Euro-Clash.

by Jean-Claude Barbier, 15 November 2010

Examining and comparing recent books by Peter Kraus and Neil Fligstein, Jean-Claude Barbier explores scenarios for the future of the European Union. His analysis makes it clear that cultural (...)

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A redrawing of the Red/Blue map in November 2010?

Five questions to Andrew Gelman about the coming midterm elections

by Pauline Peretz, 22 October 2010

In the United States, the November midterm elections will most likely be a success for Republicans in Congress. Does it mean that the 2008 electoral map is already outdated? Does it definitely (...)

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1914-1918: Understanding the Controversy

by François Buton & André Loez & Nicolas Mariot & Philippe Olivera, 11 June 2009

Is the extreme violence of the Great War explained by the culture of war, the brutalization of societies, the soldiers’ consent or the fact of constraint? While urging a form of open research that (...)

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