Le trophée de chasse dans la littérature cynégétique, une anthropomuséologie des restes animaliers by Antoine Jeanne

“…This article intends to revisit the way the ethnologist envisaged his field from a distance. Through the study of non-scientific literature from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, Antoine Jeanne delves into the works recommended by his respondents to perfect his understanding of the hunting trophy. …”
Get full text

Les enquêtes ethnobotaniques de Germaine Dieterlen (1903-1999) by Dominique Juhé-Beaulaton

“…Germaine Dieterlen, an ethnologist internationally recognized for her studies on the Dogon religious systems in Mali, has shown throughout her long career a great interest in medicinal plants. …”
Get full text

Être ethnologue au Yunnan by Aurélie Névot

“…Then I discuss—implicitly at first, then more centrally—ethnographic practice and conceptualisation in anthropology. The ethnologist’s intellectual journey is based on relations established with their informants, relations that also undergo change, influenced by the fieldwork or mirroring it, and conditioning the ethnologist’s understanding of the thought logic at play in what they observe. …”
Get full text

Relocalisation de sources anciennes, textuelles et matérielles du XXe siècle : les « aires culturelles » de la vigne en Bourgogne en question by Guillaume Grillon, Jean-Pierre Garcia

“…André Lagrange is an associate ethnologist at the “Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires de Paris” (Paris Museum of Arts and People Traditions). …”
Get full text

Alfred Métraux y la utopía del Gran Chaco by Federico Bossert

“…This article analyzes the importance of the Gran Chaco to ethnologist Alfred Metraux by drawing on his personal letters and correspondence. …”
Get full text

Étude préalable à la restauration d'un objet technico-scientifique contemporain by Rémy Geindreau

“…How to approach its composite materiality and its gigantic size? The methods of an ethnologist as well as of a technologist are both necessary to carry out this survey which aims at best integrating the rupture between its past modes of existence and its patrimonial destiny.…”
Get full text

The Scientist and Authority in the History of Finno-Ugric Research in Russia by Alexey Zagrebin

“…The main subject of this paper is the interpretation of mutual understanding between the ethnologist and government in the history of Finno-Ugric studies in Russia between the 18th and 20th centuries.…”
Get full text

Tazatel(ka) z tábora nepřátel? K rozhovorům s vyhnanými a nuceně vysídlenými Němci vedeným tazatelkami narozenými v Československu by Monika Horáková

“…The author compares own experiences with the oral history interviews with the experience of the ethnologist Libuše Volbrachtová who made also interviews with Sudeten German expellees, but already in the 1980s. …”
Get full text

Souffleurs de verre, mémoires intimes « au travail »  by Marie-Ange Lasmènes

“…After have shown the interest for the ethnologist to study memory in a diachronical way dealing with its temporality, it will be exposed how patrimonialisation of handcrafts offers a new category of heritage localized between national politics and the expansion of a local feeling of identity linked to this corporation expressed by official talks and individual memories. …”
Get full text

Elementos humboldtianos en las teorías de la religión y de la magia de Konrad Th. Preuss by Paulina Alcocer

“…This article deals with the affinities between the theory of magic and religion proposed by the German ethnologist Konrad Th. Preuss and Wilhelm von Humboldt’s philosophy of language. …”
Get full text

Une ethnologue parmi des enfants qui grandissent en Chine urbaine by Gladys Chicharro

“…In a rapidly changing urban environment, I evoke field relationships that are established and then evolve in a quickly changing urban environment, between an ethnologist and family members who grow up, age, and change status and generation in parallel. …”
Get full text

Os discursos do etnólogo, do filósofo e do ficcionistana estrutura do romance Nove noites by Cid Ottoni Bylaardt

“…This paper intends to establish a dialogue between two texts: “Structure, Signand Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences”, by Jacques Derrida, andNovenoites[Nine nights] by the Brazilian contemporary novelist Bernardo Carvalho.Derrida‟s text seems tohold the origins of the deconstructionist thinking of thephilosopher, and begins with an aporia pointed by Lévi-Strauss in the binarypair nature-culture to discuss the centered model of the occidental thinking.This scandal, thus, is associated to the activity of the ethnologist and has itsroots in ethnography. This text seeks, therefore, to reflect upon how the fictionseizes the discourse of human sciences in order to put it in question, in amovement similar to Derrida‟s thinking in the permanent deconstructionism‟sinterpellation to the scientific discourse. …”
Get full text

Miradas cruzadas en la repatriación de saberes. El caso de las grabaciones rituales náayeri registradas por K. Th. Preuss by Margarita Valdovinos Alba

“…In 1906 the German ethnologist Konrad Theodor Preuss recorded Náayeri ceremonial chants in more than 43 wax cylinders. …”
Get full text

Du rat-toto fils du porc-épic, de la panthère et de la nandinie by Claudie Haxaire

“…These sacred masks being actualized in public masquerades, women whose knowledge of the sacred remains forbidden can nevertheless approach its meaning by following the naturalistic analogies that are unveiled by songs and tales. It is up to the ethnologist, woman, to acquire this knowledge to seize these bits of secrecy (its secretions, secretas in the sense of Zempleni, 1996).…”
Get full text

Des temples et des quartiers disparus en Chine by Adeline Herrou

“…It is based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, whose heuristic value will be shown in order to understand not only the meaning that is locally attributed to these tabula rasa phenomena, but also how everyone’s zero point of observation (including that of the ethnologist) determines their perception of the event. …”
Get full text

« Le réveil de la conscience hakka de Taïwan » by Pei-yi Ko

“…In this article, based on a Taiwanese ethnologist’s point of view on fieldwork conducted for twenty years, we will see how these Hakka people ended up becoming the model of a successful social movement.…”
Get full text

Taperekue ou abandonner sa demeure. Une population rurale guaranophone du Paraguay by Capucine Boidin

“…Since 1940, the important mobility of the rural population in Paraguay struck investigators, for it contrasts with the traditional image of rooted communities rural villages are supposed to be. Some ethnologists asked if it would not be there a survival of tupi-guarani nomadism, without trying to answer. …”
Get full text

Sovietisation and the Estonian National Museum during 1940s-1950s by Karin Konksi

“…The source material used for the treatment of the subject matter comprises, in addition to the ENM’s archive materials, the memories of three ethnologists who worked in the ENM during the observed period.…”
Get full text

Les chercheurs et leurs archives : l’exemple d’ODSAS by Judith Hannoun

“…This article is an expanded version of a lecture delivered at the conference “Promoting ethnologists’ archives: contemporary uses of collections”, which took place in October 2018 in Paris and Nanterre. …”
Get full text

Ethnographie d’un film commémoratif by Isabelle Becuywe

“…In 2009 a French cultural institution, owing an audiovisual archives, celebrated its fortieth anniversary. Two ethnologists were thus made responsible for producing an exhibition in less than six months. …”
Get full text