Ethnographies of food transition and sustainability in urban contexts. Case studies from Europe and beyond.
Green Architecture: Comparing Ancient Civilization’s Techniques to Today’s
Cultures and ancient civilizations have developed the art of construction by creating simple but effective cliff dwellings to grand structures like pagodas and Byzantine domes to work alongside the environment around them. The term for this is Vernacular Architecture, how cultures manifest traditions through buildings adapted to the environment wit...
Ethnography and ethnohistory support the efficiency of hunting through endurance running in humans
Humans have two features rare in mammals: our locomotor muscles are dominated by fatigue-resistant fibres and we effectively dissipate through sweating the metabolic heat generated through prolonged, elevated activity. A promising evolutionary explanation of these features is the endurance pursuit (EP) hypothesis, which argues that both traits evol...
Planifier le désordre, se préparer à l’imprévisible. Le cas de la préparation au geste chirurgical
Le bloc opératoire, parce qu’on y procède à l’ouverture du corps, exerce sur le commun des mortels un pouvoir d’attraction où se mêlent fascination et répulsion. Rares sont les espaces de travail qui peuvent se targuer d’une telle aura. En anthropologie, les techniques mises en œuvre par les chirurgiens sont le plus souvent rapportées à des pratiqu...
L’alimentation durable est-elle inclusive? Quelques réflexions à partir d’une approche des Sciences Sociales et de l’ana...
3. Good health and well-being / 10. Reduced inequalities / 11. Sustainable cities and communities
Sur les traces de la ‘vache du futur’ : hériter d’Aurore B.
Ritualizing Media, Mediatizing Ritual / Ritualizing Media, Mediatizing Ritual: A Study on the Interaction of Media Techn...
The text develops a new philosophy and infrastructure of thought based on empirical encounters between Buddhist practices and thought, media theories, cinematic thought, philosophy of the body and general anthropological issues in such a way that all parts influence and transform each other. This creates a fluid text whose conceptual anchoring is c...
Incertitudes médicales en rhumatologie… : entre médecins et patients
Malgré les progrès phénoménaux de la science, le développement d’internet, de l’intelligence artificielle, l’incertitude reste une composante inhérente à la pratique médicale. La rhumatologie n’échappe pas à la règle, et elle concerne autant les médecins que les patients. Cette recherche propose d’observer l’incertitude dans une spécialité médicale...
“Peyote: Wild Experience, Wild Consciousness”
« Cleaning the buttons is a wild experience” McClure wrote at the opening of his essay on Peyote (McClure 1963, 23). Not only is cleaning the peyote buttons a wild experience, it was also a wild experience into consciousness most of the Beat and Bay Area Beat-affiliated poets and visual artists undertook in the 1950s and 1960s. Considerable literat...
A Manual on the Planning and Integration of Archaeological Methods in to Outdoor Forensic Search Investigations
As archaeology and its applications into forensic contexts develop into the growing discipline of forensic archaeology, an increasing amount of literature has resulted stemming from research on the integration of common archaeological methods. However, much of this literature is intended for professional archaeologists or forensic anthropologists w...
