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CNRS - Musée de l’Homme, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris
Ecological Anthropology of oases and Castagniccia (Corsica)
Urban Anthropology of public spaces and gardens in Cairo (Egypt)
Sensory Anthropology
North Africa, Middle East and Mediterranean area
Oasis: Sahara (Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco) and Middle-East (Egypt, Yemen, Saudi Arabia)

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Note: this site vbat.org is primarily in French. You can find, in this English section, articles originally written in English & translations from French to English of some parts of the website. If you are confortable with French, enjoy the French part;-)

 

Postdoctoral contract offer: Ecological knowledge and know-how of communities in al-‘Ulā oasis region, Saudi Arabia

Effective date: April 1st, 2022.
Application deadline: March 24th, 2022
Date passed, but if interested, contact me.

 

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ESPAR cluster (Egypt, Sudan and Arabian Peninsula), French Ministry of Foreign Affairs/CNRS

Member of the Scientific and Strategic Council of the ESPAR Cluster

 

Investigating the date palms of a three thousand year old oasis

Press review

 

What lies behind a fruit crop variety name? A case study of the barnī date palm from al-‘Ulā oasis, Saudi Arabia

New ! Art. in Plants, People, Planet journal, vol. 5 (1), Jan. 2023, p. 82-97

 

Oasis palm groves, ecosystems designed by humans

New - Chap. (in French: — in La Terre, le vivant, les humains, Petites et grandes découvertes de l’histoire naturelle edited by Jean-Denis Vigne & Bruno David.

 

CBNC — Conservatoire botanique national de Corse

Member of the Scientific Council of the National Botanical Conservatory of Corsica

 

Perceptions and practices of its environment, contrasted in the oases and in the desert (Sahara, Arabia)

Lecture (in French/English) given for the The workshop “The contour of the senses. Subjectivities, representations and sensitive experience of landscapes by ancient Mediterranean societies”, by the junior laboratory “Nomad’s Lands” (Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée de Lyon), June 23rd, 2022, Lyon (France)

 

Urban Anthropology: The MENA Region (Middle East and North Africa)

Chap. with Nicolas Puig (2021) for The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology

 

Cultivate your anthropology in the field of an enhanced ethnoecology

HDR | Habilitation à diriger des recherches - Paris, 2021.

 

A Timelapse Landsat of al-‘Ulā 1985-2020

The changes in exploiting the environment in the region of al-‘Ulā, KSA

 

Ethnographies Sounded on What? Methodologies, Sounds, and Experiences in Cairo

New - Chapter (in English): — published in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies edited by Michael Bull and Marcel Cobussen.

 

Cosmic Utopia | Pronaos

Experiment in progress.

 

LabEx DRIIHM

Member of the Scientific Committee of the LabEx DRIIHM

 

Oases, networks nodes

Chap. (in French) for the exhibition catalogue S. Caratini, C. Grémont, C. Lesourd & O. Schinz (dirs), Sahara, mondes connectés, Paris, Marseille, Gallimard / Musée des arts africains, océaniens, amérindiens, 2019.

 

E.T. Anthropology: Research residence in zero-gravity at the CNES Space Observatory

For an extraterrestrial anthropology: sensorialities and cosmos.
On board the Airbus A310 Zero-G.

 

Visio-gallery

Pictures gallery.

 

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Most recent articles

Bedouins and Sedentaries today in al-‘Ulā (Saudi Arabia): al-diyār and al-Dīra in the rearview mirror

Monday 2 January 2023

Position Agricultural Engineer (M/F): 6 months at al-‘Ulā in Saudi Arabia

Monday 2 January 2023
CNRS research contract, 6 months, Musée de l’Homme, Paris.

Reappraising the Mediterranean hotspot [temp. title]

Sunday 1 January 2023

Strontium isotopes reveal Pre-Islamic cotton cultivation at al-‘Ulā, Saudi Arabia

Sunday 1 January 2023

ESPAR cluster (Egypt, Sudan and Arabian Peninsula), French Ministry of Foreign Affairs/CNRS

Thursday 1 December 2022

Investigating the date palms of a three thousand year old oasis

Monday 7 November 2022
by Fabienne Doumenge & Julie Sansoulet

What lies behind a fruit crop variety name? A case study of the barnī date palm from al-‘Ulā oasis, Saudi Arabia

Monday 10 October 2022
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Latest news items

Job offer: 18 months Postdoc on the oasis of al-‘Ulā (Saudi Arabia) | Anthropologist society/environment + Arabic speaker

Wednesday 23 March 2022

“Mics in the Ears” final! published in The Senses and Society: after years of collaboration with Nicolas Puig, the results.

Saturday 18 July 2020
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