Algeria - Vincent Battesti

02/07/2024

Research work on Djanet

Articles and conferences.

13/10/2023

Perceptions and practices of the environment, oasis and desert contrasts (Sahara and Arabia)

Art. in French. submitted to… Parcours anthropologiques journal.

23/06/2022

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

Lecture (in French/English) given for the workshop “The contour of the senses. Subjectivities, representations and sensitive experience of (…)

21/12/2021

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

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

12/02/2021

Thinking oasis history from the present: date palm agrobiodiversity and Saharan insularities

Lecture (in French) given for the research seminar “Saharan worlds: sources, spaces, societies (8th-19th century)”, February 12th 2021, IISMM, (…)

13/02/2014

To categorize date palms with no gene and embarrassment in Siwa, oasis of the Libyan Desert

Lecture (in French) given to the seminar Ethnobotanique(s): théories et pratiques, Master “Évolution, patrimoine naturel et sociétés” (EDTS), (…)

07/08/2008

Earthen architectures. The example of Siwa

Architectures de terre, l’exemple de Siwa Chapter (in French) in the exhibition catalogue “Berbères, de rives en rêves” (2008) at the abbey of (…)

17/05/2008

Exhibition “Berbères, de rives en rêves” (Berbers, from shores to dreams)

Participation in the catalogue and a video interview within the exhibition.

16/05/2008

Berbères, de rives en rêves

• Architectures berbères de terre (Berber earthen architectures). Exhibition “Berbères, de rives en rêves” (Berbers, from shores to dreams) , May (…)

11/05/2007

Fieldworks and ethnology

All the research fieldworks on the zone of North Africa (the Maghreb) and the Middle East: fieldworks in oasis and urban fieldworks. On a (…)

09/06/2006

Anthropology of gardens: the gardens of oasis

Lecture given at the seminar Anthropologie des jardins: Jardins historiques, Patrimoine, Paysages, École d’architecture de Versailles, June 2006.

02/05/2006

Oases gardens

Lecture given at Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris, May 2006.

21/06/2005

Gardens in the desert, Evolution of oasis practices and knowledge, Jerid, Tunisia

Vincent Battesti (2005), Jardins au désert, Évolution des pratiques et savoirs oasiens, Jérid tunisien Book (in French) published by Éditions IRD, (…)

23/05/2005

Oasian natures in North Africa

Relationships of oases populations with their environment in North Africa

17/04/2005

Satellite pictures

Satellite images of oasian regions

18/02/2005

The professional experiences

(the most valorizating, of course).

31/01/2003

Smell Sui Generis: Subterfuge in the Domestication of the Date Palm (Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria)

Odeur sui generis, Le subterfuge dans la domestication du palmier dattier (Tassili n’Ajjer, Algérie) Art.(in French) in Anthropozoologica journal

21/11/2002

Subterfuge in the Domestication of the Date Palm (Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria)

Lecture given at the Conference Animal Domestications: social and symbolic dimensions, Maison de l’Orient méditerranéen, Lyon, 2002

31/10/2000

Les relations équivoques, approches circonspectes pour une socioécologie des oasis sahariennes

French abstract of the Doctorate Thesis, Saharan Studies Association Newsletter

31/05/1999

The equivocal relations and the oases

Les relations équivoques et les oasis Art.(in French) in Sécheresse, Science et changements planétaires journal

28/09/1998

The equivocal relations, Circumspect approaches for a socio-ecology of Saharan oases.

Doctorate Thesis. (PhD) - Paris, 1998.

30/11/1995

ِEthnobotanical approach of a Saharan Oasis: Djanet (Algeria)

Main DEA thesis (Social Sciences) - Paris, 1993.