Preliminary report on human remains from Tell Masaikh and Tell Ashara. Season 2009* by Jacek Tomczyk

“…The paper is a summary of anthropological research conducted in 2009. We have been excavated 80 human skeletons (50 individuals from Tell Masikh, and 30 from Tell Ashara).…”
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Ne plus avoir le temps, ou le risque de l’errance temporelle : considérations anthropologiques et éducatives by Géraldine Potier, Renaud Hétier

“…The modern individual is described as unbound, by the economic hold, by the distancing of the relation to the other, of the body itself and of the sensibility, on a background of anthropological tendency. This untying could be a freedom, but it deprives him above all of containment and support, and delivers him to a "raw" time, which passes without him, without him managing to inhabit it. …”
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La fabrique des reliques. Manipulations et production de sacré dans la clôture by Francesca Sbardella

“…On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork which was conducted among some Carmelite and Augustinian monastic groups (in France and in Italy), the aim of the present paper is to investigate the nature of relic-objects from an anthropological perspective. These are probably one of the most significant reified examples of the so-called ‘sacred’ as tangible evidence in contemporary western societies. …”
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Autonomous drone warfare by Martín Carbajo-Núñez OFM

“…Using a Catholic perspective, we will analyze these new challenges, indicating the anthropological and ethical bases that must lead to the prohibition of autonomous “killer robots” and, more generally, to the overcoming of the just war theory. …”
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La vita è altrove? L'autunno mediterraneo dei pensionati italiani in Tunisia, tra conflitti e crisi. by Laura Faranda

“…With the first data collected, we will attempt to outline some provisional answers and to bring out the anthropological sense of the phenomenon. …”
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Le renouveau de l’approche documentaire, exemple d’une archive collaborative : Susan Meiselas, Kurdistan (1991-2009) by Clara Bouveresse

“…For twenty years, her project participated in the debates on the role and authority of the photographic document, addressing the critique of photojournalism, reflections on archives and the material turn in anthropological theory. Susan Meiselas transforms each photograph into an object, conveying stories and encounters. …”
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Preliminary report on human remains from Tell Masaikh and Tell Ashara. Season 2008 by Jacek Tomczyk

“…This paper is a summary of anthropological research conducted in 2008. We have been excavated 82 human skeletons (58 individuals from Tell Masikh, and 24 from Tell Ashara).…”
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The role of local populations in tourism development projects: the case of Loango National Park in Gabon by Ariane Payen

“…This paper will show how community tourism projects in protected areas can often fail due to both a lack of communication between the different actors and the insufficient integration of the relevant socio-anthropological issues. In the same way as a World Heritage site, the case of Loango National Park in Gabon clearly demonstrates that the original objectives of involvement by and empowerment of the local population are still far from being met. …”
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Cosmopolitisme au pluriel by Alessandra Siqueira Barreto, Rogéria Campos de Almeida Dutra

“…This article considers the question of cosmopolitanism in the contemporary world, stressing the anthropological perspective and situating forms and practices of coexistence relations between people from different backgrounds through the cultural and political mediation developed by a Brazilian religious leader on European soil. …”
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L'autonomie de l'enfant en question by Jean-Claude Quentel

“…The status of the child also raises an anthropological question concerning the specificity of the functioning of the child — something which is often denied today. …”
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Ribeirinho Food Regimes, Socioeconomic Inclusion and Unsustainable Development of the Amazonian Floodplain by Tatiana Schor, Gustavo S. Azenha

“…We argue that a political ecology of food regimes in the Brazilian Amazonian floodplain—drawing on anthropological and geographic approaches and insights—provides a privileged vantage from which to illuminate the contradictions of current development trajectories and the socioenvironmental disparities they engender, potentially contributing to the articulation of more effective sustainable development and social inclusion policies.…”
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Technologie du fait maritime chez les Kalinago des Petites Antilles aux xvie et xviie siècles by Benoît Bérard, Jean-Yves Billard, Thierry L’Etang, Guillaume Lalubie, Costantino Nicolizas, Bruno Ramstein, Emma Slayton

“…These texts constitute a continuous series from the time of first contact to sub-contemporaneous anthropological descriptions. This paper is based on extensive review of the data contained in those early Spanish, Dutch, English, and French sources and also on a review of the few direct archaeological evidences. …”
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PROBLEM OF EXPERIENCE IN POSTMODERN PHILOSOPHY ПРОБЛЕМА ОПЫТА В ПОСТМОДЕРНИСТСКОЙ ФИЛОСОФИИ ПРОБЛЕМА ДОСВІДУ В ПОСТМОДЕРНІСТСЬКІЙ ФІЛОСОФІЇ... by О. Lauta

“…It is analyzed structuralist strategy of an explication of experience which are directed on disclosing of manuals logocentrism and revealing anthropological character of the nature of experience.…”
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Culture et interculturel en psychologie : préférence pour la démarche scientifique et conséquences épistémologiques by Bertrand Troadec

“…This opposition is not satisfactory from an anthropological and sociological point of view. Any culture, conceived as "separated" from the others, is always the product of "meetings" which occurred during History. …”
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Autistes : entre situations de vulnérabilité et pouvoir d’agir ? by Julie Dumonteil

“…After focusing on an anthropological definition of the notion of vulnerability, the phenomena of vulnerabilization of autistic people is analyzed to understand how education can fight it by encouraging autistic empowerment.…”
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Analyse préliminaire et discussion sur la nature d’un dépôt dentaire très particulier by Yves Gleize, Dominique Castex, Rémy Chapoulie, Henri Duday

“…The existence of another example in the anthropological series studied, although smaller, indicates the importance of the loss of antagonist teeth in the development of such deposits.…”
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L’instrumentation de la démarche de professionnalisation par l’usage du carnet de bord en formation by Jean-Luc Denny, Brigitte Pagnani, Louis Durrive

“…Taking the ergological approach, which claims an anthropological approach to work, the data collection protocol mobilizes the semi-directive interview and the drawing as an artifact, two interviews are conducted with three participants. …”
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Stress psychosocial de l’enfant et excrétion urinaire de cortisol : impact du type de structure familiale et de l’expérience de migration by Hélène Pagezy, Valérie Niel-Bernard, Pierre Darlu

“…The relationship between migration, family structure and stress level was investigated in an anthropological study carried out in Marseilles on 60 children of Senegalese origin, 5 to 15 years old. …”
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The Origins of the Narrative Structures in the Chansons de Geste : Methodological Notes on Joël Grisward’s comparativism by Andrea Ghidoni

“…The present rethinking of the model by Grisward will use two conceptual and epistemological tools active in other fields: the first one is borrowed from the unpublished notes on Germanic legends drafted by Saussure; the second one is the concept of polythetic category formulated by Rodney Needham in an anthropological context, conception partly borrowed from similar reflections in the field of natural sciences.…”
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Diversité alimentaire et prééminence du riz dans les habitudes de consommation au Cameroun by Sariette Batibonak, Claudine Defo

“…Through this paper, we sketch a paradox between this potential food resources and the people’s choice brought to the consumption of rice in a context of changing eating habits. By an anthropological approach, reflection leads to the conclusion that Cameroonian households carry their sights, primarily on rice products.…”
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