Explanations

– This site vbat is a priori a work in progress.
But this version in a spip format inherits also from the former ones, which followed one anothers here (put online first the February 1^st, 2000) and elsewehre.
The first site was an elementary ftp access to let always availaible some documents, articles, taht, in this way, I was able to download when needed.
Gradually, this took a html shape, means a classic web interface, and nowthis dynamic form.

– This Spip version is an adapted version of the skeleton developed (and offered) by Erational, independent webdesigner and developer based in Marseille: the TIC-IRD skeleton: https://contrib.spip.net/Squelette-...
Many thanks to him again! :)

– This site was first dedicated to my main research of this moment:

• Ecological Anthropology of oases of Maghreb, Sahara and Middle East, of the gardens of the Arab World
• Anthropologie écologique des oasis du Maghreb, du Sahara et du Moyen-Orient, des jardins du Monde arabe

Its name actually was Anthropoasis
... and had this two sibylline sentences as epigraph:

• • Equivocal socio-ecology... Construction of natures: oases and gardens.
  • Socio-écologie équivoques... Construction des natures: oasis et jardins.

– Today... that changes. Let us say that the field of my work widens. I work much less on the Maghreb, I went meanwhile to Yemen, and I have worked for three years in Egypt.

It is not only a geographic issue, because if I’m going on working intensely on the oases, I also broached Cairo from the urban anthropology perspective.

– My research work in progress relates to urban public spaces (in Cairo), with a special attention on the parks: modalities of use and behaviors in theses public spaces, morphology of the places and their history.

The objective: to define the modalities of uses and behaviors in public spaces in Cairo and in particular on the parks and the Downtown area, both invented with XIXe S. by a urban reformist stream in Cairo.

Description of the work: its aim is to understand the evolution itself of a public space in an Arab city, Cairo in particular, the invention of some of these places like the parks, and the use that Cairene people had/have of them (of course by distinguishing the different kinds of frequenting and users). Work is carried out primarily by observations and interviews in the anthropological procedure, and a bookisher approach for its historical dimension.

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