List of open access articles

18/12/2023

Strontium isotope evidence for Pre-Islamic cotton cultivation in Arabia

New! Art. in English. In Frontiers in Earth Science journal.
01/07/2023

Bedouins and Sedentaries today in al-‘Ulā (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia): al-diyār and al-Dīra in the rear-view mirror

Art. (in English) in Arabian Humanities journal.
17/06/2023

Time to refine the geography of biodiversity hotspots by integrating molecular data: The Mediterranean Basin as a case study

Art. in English. New ! in Biological Conservation.
01/01/2023

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
21/12/2021

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

Chap. with Nicolas Puig (2021) for The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology
02/09/2020

On the necessity of combining ethnobotany and genetics to assess agrobiodiversity and its evolution in crops: a case study on date palms ({Phoenix dactylifera} L.) in Siwa Oasis, Egypt

Art. (in English): New: published Sept. 2020 Muriel Gros-Balthazard* & Vincent Battesti* et al.. published in Evolutionary Applications (…)
06/07/2020

Towards a Sonic Ecology of Urban Life: Ethnography of Sound Perceptions in Cairo

Art. (in English), co-written with Nicolas Puig, in The Senses and Society, 2020, vol. 15 (2), p. 170-191.
22/10/2019

Dates

Chap. (in French) for the exhibition catalogue Christophe Lavelle & Marie Merlin (dirs), Je mange donc je suis. Petit dictionnaire curieux de (…)
16/05/2019

Oases, networks nodes

Chap. (in French) for the exhibition catalogue S. Caratini, C. Grémont, C. Lesourd & O. Schinz (dirs), Sahara, mondes connectés, Paris, (…)
20/06/2018

Date palm agrobiodiversity (Phoenix dactylifera L.) in Siwa oasis, Egypt: combining ethnography, morphometry, and genetics

Art. (in English): Vincent Battesti* & Muriel Gros-Balthazard*, Clémence Ogéron, Sarah Ivorra, Jean-Frédéric Terral, Claire Newton, 2018 — « (…)
13/07/2017

The Discovery of Wild Date Palms in Oman Reveals a Complex Domestication History Involving Centers in the Middle East and Africa

Art. (in English), Gros-Balthazard, Muriel, et al., 2017 — « The Discovery of Wild Date Palms in Oman Reveals a Complex Domestication History (…)
19/05/2017

Mics in the ears: How to ask people in Cairo to talk about their sound universes

Chap. (in English), in Christine Guillebaud (ed.), Toward an Anthropology of Ambient Sound, London, Routledge, Routledge studies in Anthropology (…)
24/03/2017

From waterfalls to snowy forests, Egyptian posters show what exotic looks like from the desert

Art. (in English) in The Conversation, Global edition 2017 The pastiche-style poster art ubiquitous in Egyptian houses and businesses reveals how (…)
13/10/2016

“The sound of society”: a method for investigating sound perception in Cairo

Art. (in English) with Nicolas Puig in The Senses & Society, 2016 n° Contemporary French Sensory Anthropology.
30/06/2015

Ethnoecology of pollination and pollinators: Knowledge and practice in three societies

Art. (in English) published in Revue d’ethnoécologie journal (2015), vol. 7 with Marie Roué, Nicolas Césard, and Romain Simenel
20/05/2015

Resources and Appropriations: Back to the Jerid Oases (Tunisia) after the Revolution

Art. (in English) translated from an art. published in French in Études rurales (2013)
20/05/2012

Participation to the book “People and Natures”

IRD Publishing House prepared a general public book for the 13th Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology in Montpellier (France) (…)
10/01/2012

The Saharan oasis put to the test of its Landscape: The Jerid

Chapter (in English) published in Virginie Lefebvre, with Aziza Chaouni (eds.), Desert Tourism: tracing the fragile edges of development, (…)
22/12/2011

The Power of a Disappearance: Water in the Jerid region of Tunisia

Chapter (in English) published in B. R. Johnston & all. (eds.), Water, Cultural Diversity & Global Environmental Change: Emerging Trends, (…)
04/05/2011

L’Égypte au présent, Inventaire d’une société avant révolution

Today’s Egypt: Inventory of a society prior to revolution Paris, Sindbad-Actes Sud (coll. La Bibliothèque arabe), 1200 pages (40 contributors) (…)
06/06/2006

The Giza Zoo: Re-Appropriating Public Spaces, Re-Imagining Urban Beauty

Chapter (in English) in Cairo Cosmopolitan (2006).
25/03/2005

Curriculum vitæ (pdf)

The cv in pdf format.
13/12/2003

Agriculture

Contribution (in English) for the Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, 2nd ed.