ABSTRACT: With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, high mortality rates brought to the forefront the importance not only of the gestures performed and practices implemented on and about the deceased, but also, most importantly, of the entire sequence of funeral operations involved. The intensification of the work needed to take care of bodies in t...
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British people traveling to the Russian Empire in the nineteenth century encountered its truly multiethnic composition. In the South Caucasus they were introduced, for instance, to Georgian viticulture, often served in Armenian inns, suggesting a culinary contact zone. Cultural contacts were equally seen in the Crimean Peninsula: the Greeks were wi...
Depuis les années 1980, le patrimoine kanak dispersé intègre les objets kanak anciens conservés dans des musées à l’extérieur du territoire calédonien. Poursuivant la pensée de Jean-Marie Tjibaou (1936-1989), chef de file du mouvement indépendantiste kanak jusqu’à son décès, ce projet est soutenu et reconnu par les institutions patrimoniales calédo...
La Madone de Brando, prestigieux retable, chef d’oeuvre de la Renaissance est destiné à enrichir les collections du musée de la Corse en devenant une pièce majeure du parcours permanent du Musée. Le parcours patrimonial immersif : Palazzu di Memoria, en lien interactif avec le parcours permanent, propose la traversée du rite pascal sous la forme vi...
This draft examines the “moral labour” of French professionals involved in preimplantation genetic testing, an ethically sensitive practice aimed at preventing the birth of children with hereditary diseases by transferring only "healthy" embryos. While French law forbids discarding healthy-carrier embryos, it leaves a “grey area” regarding the pref...
Identity documents provide rights to citizenship and social inclusion. They can also generate violence and conflicts. This book explores Côte d'Ivoire's 'ID war' as a paradigmatic case of a citizenship crisis, centered on the access to national identity cards and certificates.Using ethnographic and historical data, it shows how the documentary stru...
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PAPER SHORT ABSTRACT:Examining the relational rationalities of work in breeding through inter-species human-microbe collaborations to protect against the deleterious effects of Listeria, we discuss the hygienist and commercial limits of "putting microbes to work", and thus the anthropological boundaries of work.PAPER LONG ABSTRACT:In France, the sy...
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