Publications

New ! Art. in Plants, People, Planet journal, special issue “Fruits in Focus” (2022)

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.

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

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

Report: — New —

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

Art. [in French] On the website of INSU (Institut national des sciences de l’Univers, CNRS), Les oasis méditerranéennes, Nov. 5, 2020

New in Bénédicte Florin, Anna Madoeuf, Olivier Sanmartin, Roman Stadnicki & Florence Troin (dirs), Abécédaire de la ville au Maghreb et au Moyen-Orient, Tours, Presses universitaires François-Rabelais collection Villes & Territoires, p. 145-146.

New in Bénédicte Florin, Anna Madoeuf, Olivier Sanmartin, Roman Stadnicki & Florence Troin (dirs), Abécédaire de la ville au Maghreb et au Moyen-Orient, Tours, Presses universitaires François-Rabelais collection Villes & Territoires, p. 200-203.

New in Bénédicte Florin, Anna Madoeuf, Olivier Sanmartin, Roman Stadnicki & Florence Troin (dirs), Abécédaire de la ville au Maghreb et au Moyen-Orient, Tours, Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, collection Villes & Territoires, p. 319-321.

Art. (in English): New: published Sept. 2020
Muriel Gros-Balthazard* & Vincent Battesti* et al.. published in Evolutionary Applications journal (2020) vol. 13 (8), p. 1818-1840
[Siwa #2]

Interview (in French) by Christel Trinquier, Ouest-France, 2 August 2020.

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

Report: — New —

Chap. (in French) for the exhibition catalogue Christophe Lavelle & Marie Merlin (dirs), Je mange donc je suis. Petit dictionnaire curieux de l’alimentation, Paris, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, 2019.

Just published!. In French: edition of the vol. 18, issue 3 of VertigO journal with Élise Geisler, Christophe Mager & Laurent Matthey.

Just published! (in French) Introduction to vol. 18, issue 3 of VertigO journal with Élise Geisler, Christophe Mager & Laurent Matthey.

Just published!
Audio tracks: “The voice of Cairo - Egypt” & “The coffees of Cairo - Egypt”, in Monica Fantini & Christine Guillebaud, Listening to the World, RFI, 2019.

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.

Chap. (in French) for the book G. Tallet & T. Sauzeau (eds.), Mer et désert de l’Antiquité à nos jours, Approches croisées, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2018, p. 105-144.

Art. (in English):
Vincent Battesti* & Muriel Gros-Balthazard*, Clémence Ogéron, Sarah Ivorra, Jean-Frédéric Terral, Claire Newton, 2018 — « Date palm agrobiodiversity (Phoenix dactylifera L.) in Siwa oasis, Egypt : combining ethnography, morphometry, and genetics », Human Ecology, vol. 46 (4), p. 529-546
[Siwa #1]

Art. (in English),
Gros-Balthazard, Muriel, et al., 2017 — « The Discovery of Wild Date Palms in Oman Reveals a Complex Domestication History Involving Centers in the Middle East and Africa ». Current Biology, vol. 27 (14), p. 2211-2218.e8

I am far from being at the beginning in the list of authors (and my biggest contribution was to have sampled date palms in situ, but the paper is important: it is indeed the first time that the Wild date palm can be identified.
And this plays a crucial role in the understanding of its still mysterious domestication.

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

Art. (in English)
in The Conversation, Global edition 2017
The pastiche-style poster art ubiquitous in Egyptian houses and businesses reveals how locals imagine far-off landscapes, idealise nature and define beauty.

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

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

Art. (in English) translated from an art. published in French in Études rurales (2013)

Report: — New —

Art. (in French) in Études rurales in 2013.
Tarik Dahou, Mohamed Elloumi & François Molle (eds.), EHESS.

Journal issue (in English and French) edited with Margareta Tengberg, and Claire Newton, Revue d’ethnoécologie, “The Date Palm: Origin and Cultivation in the Middle East and in Egypt/Le Palmier dattier: Origine et culture en Égypte et au Moyen-Orient”, vol. 4, 2013.

Art. (in French) in Revue d’ethnoécologie - vol. 4, 2013, “The Date Palm : Origin and Cultivation in the Middle East and in Egypt”
[Siwa #0]

Art. (in French) in Revue d’ethnoécologie - vol. 4, 2013 “The Date Palm : Origin and Cultivation in the Middle East and in Egypt”

Invitation to a participant listening and proposal of an analytical perspective.

Chap. (in French), in Joël Candau & Marie-Barbara Le Gonidec (eds.), Paysages sensoriels. Essai d’anthropologie de la construction et de la perception de l’environnement sonore, éditions CTHS, Paris, 2013.

IRD Publishing House prepared a general public book for the 13^th Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology in Montpellier (France) from May 20^th-25^th, 2012.
Entitled “Hommes et natures / People and Natures / Seres humanos y naturalezas”, this book trilingual, available to the public, aims to discover the approach of ethnobiology through field photographs provided by a fifty researchers. Nearly 110 photos were selected.
« Hommes et Natures » Editors: Élisabeth Motte-Florac, Yildiz (...)

Chapter (in English) published in Virginie Lefebvre, with Aziza Chaouni (eds.), Desert Tourism: tracing the fragile edges of development, Cambridge (MA), Harvard University Press, 2012.

Certainly, oasian landscapes are “built nature”, but we maybe have to find out now by whom they were built… The oasis: a place to work or a place to stroll? The usual local definition of the garden manages a place for leisure and work unlike European tourists who underestimate the anthropic quality of a palm grove. An ethnoecology of the oasis landscape deals with the cross-actions of practices and narratives of various actors of this specific desert space.

Chapter (in English) published in B. R. Johnston & all. (eds.), Water, Cultural Diversity & Global Environmental Change: Emerging Trends, Sustainable Futures?, UNESCO/Springer, 2012.

Translation (to French) of a chapter for the book V. Battesti & F. Ireton (eds.), L’Égypte au présent, Inventaire d’une société avant révolution, Paris, éditions Sindbad-Actes Sud, 2011.

Collaboration to and translation (to French) of a chapter of the book V. Battesti & F. Ireton (eds.), L’Égypte au présent, Inventaire d’une société avant révolution, Paris, éditions Sindbad-Actes Sud, 2011.

Chapter (in French) of the book V. Battesti & F. Ireton (eds.), L’Égypte au présent, Inventaire d’une société avant révolution, Paris, Sindbad-Actes Sud, 2011.

Chapter (in French) of the book V. Battesti & F. Ireton (eds.), L’Égypte au présent, Inventaire d’une société avant révolution, Paris, Sindbad-Actes Sud, 2011.

Chapter (in French) of the book V. Battesti & F. Ireton (eds.), L’Égypte au présent, Inventaire d’une société avant révolution, Paris, Sindbad-Actes Sud, 2011.

Chapter (in French) of the book V. Battesti & F. Ireton (eds.), L’Égypte au présent, Inventaire d’une société avant révolution, Paris, Sindbad-Actes Sud, 2011.

Today’s Egypt: Inventory of a society prior to revolution
Paris, Sindbad-Actes Sud (coll. La Bibliothèque arabe), 1200 pages (40 contributors)
ISBN: 978-2-7427-9780-6

The “people’s revolution” in Egypt - Thawrat al-Sha’b - erupted Jan. 25, 2011 while our editor was laying out this work. The inventory of the Egyptian society that this book is offering therefore is published timely when Egypt lives a turning point in its history. Many connoisseurs of this country envisioned that large movements of political and social challenges can happen and lead to profound changes, however, no one would venture to forecast the timing, modalities and scope. Number of chapters in this book shed light on socio-economic and political issues that became intolerable in the eyes of many Egyptians, and shed light also on various social groups that became leading forces of this movement. This Égypte au présent (Egypt of today) gives a “full-size” image of the multiplicity and extent of the problems, that will have to face as challenges, the democratic system which, hopefully, will be the outcome of the process.

Participation (in French) in the survey on Causses and Cévennes region application as part of World Heritage List of Cultural and natural heritage.

Article (in French) published in Égypte/Monde arabe n°5-6, 2009: Pratiques du patrimoine en Égypte et au Soudan. Issue edited by Omnia Aboukorah, Jean-Gabriel Leturcq, Alain Roussillon †.
The idea is to compare the designation of building features as heritage in Cairo and in Siwa Oasis in Egypt, apparently two very contrasted situations. The local actors (to be distinguished by categories), in Siwa and in Cairo, speak about architecture to actually mention something else.

Article (in French) for Les Cahiers du GERHICO (2009).

Art. (in French) in Cahier d’études africaines (2009, éditions de l’EHESS, Paris)
Numéro “Tourismes. La quête de soi par la pratique des autres” (issue “Tourisms. The quest for self in the practice of other”).
From Tourism to discover the nature of North African oases to Tourism to attain now the “essential nature” of oases’ communities, this article will show that the landscape, and environmental dimensions remain a permanent feature, fueled by transnational imaginations. Fieldworks on Siwa oasis in Egypt and Tozeur oasis and Jerid region in Tunisia.

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

Contributions to Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia

Article (in French) in the volume 3/3^rd serie of Égypte/Monde arabe, 2006.
Original title: “Pourquoi j’irais voir d’en haut ce que je connais déjà d’en bas”?" Centralités et circulations : comprendre l’usage des espaces dans l’oasis de Siwa

Edition, with Nicolas Puig, of a volume of the Égypte-Monde Arabe journal, on the “Terrains d’Égypte, anthropologies contemporaines” [Fieldworks of Egypt, Contemporary anthropologies], n° 3, 3e série, 1er semestre 2006, 213 p.
Published in Jan. 2007.
This issue takes pretext of Egypt to address the variety of the relationships to fieldwork by ethnologists.

Terrains d’Égypte: introduction
Article(in French) in the volume 3/3^rd serie of Égypte/Monde arabe, 2006.

Translation of an article of Barbara Drieskens in the volume 3/3^rd serie of Égypte/Monde arabe, 2006.

Art. (in French) Journal des Africanistes (2006).
Original title: De l’habitation aux pieds d’argile, Les vicissitudes des matériaux et techniques de construction à Siwa (Égypte)

Chapter (in English) in Cairo Cosmopolitan (2006).

Part of an exhibition, Musée de l’Homme (Paris)
Exhibition project in the Musée de l’Homme in Paris in 2007/2008. The nature drawn by the children of 15 places in the world. Scientific department: Hélène Pagezy (MNHN).

Vincent Battesti (2005), Jardins au désert, Évolution des pratiques et savoirs oasiens, Jérid tunisien
Book (in French) published by Éditions IRD, coll. À travers champs, Paris, 2005, 440 p.
ISBN 2-7099-1564-2

Des espaces publics au Caire : les jardins publics
Art. (in French) cd-rom Espaces publics et espaces marchands

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

Sons des espaces publics au Caire
CD-Roms of sounds for the exhibition “Être musulmane, être musulman au Caire, à Téhéran, à Istanbul, à Dakar et à Paris”

L’histoire des jardins du Caire jusqu’au XVIIIe siècle [Groupe de recherche]
Art. (in French) Lettre d’information de l’OUCC

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

Les oasis du Jérid, des ressources naturelles et idéelles
Chap. (in French) in Environnement et sociétés rurales en mutation, Approches alternatives, 2004

Esquisse d’une communication gestuelle yéménite (Taez et Sanaa)
Art. (in French) in Chroniques yéménites journal.

French abstract of the Doctorate Thesis, Saharan Studies Association Newsletter

Les échelles temporelles des oasis du Jérid tunisien
Art. (in French) in Anthropos journal

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

Le sens des lieux, Espaces et pratiques dans les palmeraies du Jérid (Sud-ouest tunisien)
Art. (in French) in JATBA, revue d’ethnobiologie journal

Les oasis du Jérid: des révolutions permanentes?
Book/report (in French) published by Cirad, Montpellier, 1997.

The rest of the work is not yet finished, they are the... works in progress!
It is over here…

The totality of my written production is available in open access on the HAL Open Archives server.