This article is about the equivoques of anthropology’s colonial encounter as well as the story of intellectual artefacts. [1] It addresses an old debate on the genealogy of anthropological knowledge, at the core of which is a shared assumption: (...)

Entre 1951 et 1966, l’hacienda de Vicos, située près de la ville de Huaraz, au Pérou, a été transformée en un « site de recherche » (field station) et en un objet d’une « expérience de laboratoire » (experiment) par les chercheurs de l’université de Cornell. Des (...)

Joan Halifax’s itinerary epitomizes the intertwining of spiritual and academic authority, leading to the respectability of religious experts in the public sphere [85]. Although she has not received the same degree of attention as Michael Harner and Carlos (...)

La publication récente des 720 pages de l’ouvrage Les Sanglots de l’aigle pêcheur représente un aboutissement intellectuel et personnel pour l’anthropologue Alban Bensa qui en a assuré la coordination et, en grande partie, l’écriture [96]. Dernière étape en date (...)

A Copernican Revolution? Anthropology of nature, anthropology of non-humans, animal studies, agentive nature, multi-species ethnographies [200] … Anthropology has experienced a proliferation of concepts, texts and events over the past ten years that are (...)

There were several occasions in Gregory Bateson’s writing in which he presented his own biography along with his accomplishments. Some of these are longer than others. One of the longer ones revealed his early interest in pattern and mysticism and appeared (...)

Bronisław Malinowski, the founder of modern social anthropology, was a philosopher by way of his tertiary education at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. [275] He was influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche on the one hand and Ernst Mach on the other. At the (...)

1. Science et vie1.1 Introduction : une épistémè elliptique Quelle est l’impulsion spirituelle qui a produit la philosophie du langage de Humboldt, l’animant dans toutes ses parties ? Rien d’autre que le sentiment le plus vif de l’humanité ; le respect profond (...)

Raymond Firth ‘is remembered today principally as an area specialist and by historians of the discipline as an ‘organization man’. [281] This doesn’t discount his importance as an economic anthropologist, particularly his ‘work on non-industrial economies’. (...)

‘The Holy Buffalo Mask and Lera Dance of the Daka’ ‘Der heilige Büffelmasken und Laerentanz der Dakka’ by the artist Carl Arriens seems to record a performance witnessed by members of the expedition led by Leo Frobenius that traversed Nigeria and North (...)

Theodor Waitz (1821-1864) est une figure clé de l’anthropologie allemande du XIXe siècle ; il fait aussi partie des figures peu connues de ce que serait une histoire alternative de la philosophie au XIXe siècle, une philosophie cherchant de plus en plus à (...)

Je dus donc abolir le savoir afin d’obtenir une place pour la croyance. Emmanuel Kant, Préface de la seconde édition La critique de la raison pure (1787). Les mythes, les contes, les légendes et, d’une manière générale, toute cette partie du folklore qui est (...)

A Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (APA), registada formalmente em 1989, nasceu da reunião de alguns jovens antropólogos que sentiram necessidade de se encontrar, nas palavras de Pina-Cabral [458], como se fosse uma articulação entre amigos. [459]Eram (...)

The world-renowned Africanist and social anthropologist John Rankine Goody, known to all and publishing as Jack, died in Cambridge after 95 years of an exceptionally fertile life. [507] He authored more than two dozen books, edited another dozen volumes, (...)

En la historia contemporánea de la antropología hecha en España, la Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares (1944-2021) supone una de las iniciativas más exitosas y longevas. Fue creada durante el primer franquismo, dentro del organismo central que (...)

Formative Years of Karl von den Steinen The first two ethnological expeditions to the Xingu river basin in Central Brazil, should be credited to German Americanist Karl von den Steinen (1855-1929), who in 1884 and in 1877-88 went through that region (...)

Os anos de formação de Karl von den Steinen As primeiras duas expedições etnológicas para a bacia do Rio Xingu, no Brasil Central, devem ser creditadas ao americanista alemão Karl von den Steinen (1855-1929), que em 1884 e em 1887-88 percorreu esta região até (...)

Nella storia degli studi folklorici italiani del Novecento, Paolo Toschi occupa un posto sicuramente importante. In effetti, il suo vissuto biografico e scientifico si lega all’istituzionalizzazione e alla diffusione dei saperi folklorici in Italia. A (...)

Dans l’histoire des études folkloriques italiennes du XXe siècle, Paolo Toschi occupe une place incontestable. Son parcours biographique et scientifique est intimement lié à l’institutionnalisation et à la diffusion du savoir folklorique en Italie. Nous (...)

Nella storia delle discipline antropologiche dell’Italia del novecento, la figura di Paolo Toschi (Lugo di Romagna 1893; Roma 1974) costituisce un punto di riferimento molto importante, in particolare per lo sviluppo istituzionale del folklore. In effetti, (...)