Dans un récent ouvrage, Tim Ingold (2018) tente de répondre à la question de savoir ce qu’éduquer signifie. Sa réponse — guider l’attention, montrer quelque chose à quelqu’un — possède de nombreuses accointances épistémologiques et méthodologiques avec les développements de Marcel Mauss sur cette même question (Mauss 1934). Ce dernier, cependant, s...
Abstract: “Sustainability” is an increasingly fashionable design criterion for celebrity corporate architects, their clients, and the governmental bodies that regulate urban development. Yet determining if and how a building is actually sustainable remains controversial, with different actors positing qualifications that are often at odds with each...
In the Fall of 2018, Matthew Hansen monitored the destruction of a parking lot two blocks north of the Capitol Building for the subsequent building of a geothermal system. During this period, and excavation was conducted with the aid of the UNL Campus Archaeology Project, and 12 features were identified. Five features produced artifacts, with Featu...
Débutant actuellement ma quatrième année de doctorat en anthropologie (EHESS/ULiège), j'aimerais profiter de cette conférence pour faire le point, alors que je démarre l'écriture, sur ce qu'il y a de plus marquant dans ce que m'a appris le terrain. Cela fait particulièrement sens à l'UCLouvain, là où l'on m'a enseigné le métier d'anthropologue. Ma ...
Abstract: A fundamental capacity of language is its reflexivity. But not every aspect of language is equally accessible to being reflected upon. Michael Silverstein's 1981 paper, the “Limits of Awareness,” set the terms of this discussion in linguistic anthropology with his study of speakers' “awareness” of pragmatic forms and their corresponding c...
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The small town of Waldo is disintegrating. Although part of the larger Alachua County, residents still must drive far into Gainesville to send their children to school, go to the bank, the doctors, and get their groceries and medicine. Even though Waldo residents pay taxes to this county, they remain without many of the necessities only available i...
In parallel with the Ife-Sungbo archaeological project led by A. Ogunfolakan and G. Chouin, a complementary research has been carried out by C. Chapelain de Seréville-Niel, CNRS research engineer and archaeo-anthropologist at Centre for Ancient and Medieval Archaeological and Historical Research of the University of Caen Normandy (France). This stu...
Le rapport entre Science et Gestion de la biodiversité est fortement imprégné d’un paradigme dominant dont le socle est double : d’un côté, il y a le concept de conservation qui sépare la Nature de la Culture, et qui incrimine les activités humaines avec une tendance alarmiste sur l’état de la biodiversité et sa décimation imminente. Et d’un autre ...
