Research in social anthropology

Vincent Battesti

Publications

Marseille, France, le 2 octobre 2010, © Vincent Battesti Vincent Battesti

Published works: my publications (articles, chapters, books).

Most of them are accessible to download.
Some articles or chapters or books are also in press and it is there: In progress and forthcoming.
You can also take a look at academic works and lectures & conferences.

Digging deeper into the impacts of different soil water systems on the date palm root architecture and associated fungal communities

Art. (in English) A. Robin-Soriano et al. in Symbiosis (2025)

How oases work

Chap. (in French) in the edited book: Déserts, Vivre en milieu extrême, 2024

Deserts. Living in an Extreme Environment

Edited book (in French) Oct. 2024, V. Battesti, M. Crépy, A. Herrel & A. Lalis (eds.)

Varietal diversity and cultivation practices of the date palm in the AlUla oasis

Chap. in English in AlUla : Wonder of Arabia (2023), Vincent Battesti & Muriel Gros-Balthazard.

Strontium isotope evidence for Pre-Islamic cotton cultivation in Arabia

New! Art. in English. In Frontiers in Earth Science journal.

Learning the senses, learning through the senses: Anthropology of sensory perceptions

Edited Book (in French) Vincent Battesti & Joël Candau (eds.), 2023, Paris, Éditions Pétra, 598 p.

Conditions and modalities of sensory enskilment: an anthropological disputatio

Chap. (in French): — in Apprendre les sens, apprendre par les sens : Anthropologie des perceptions sensorielles, edited by Vincent Battesti & (…)

Bédouins et Sédentaires aujourd’hui à al-‘Ulā (Royaume d’Arabie saoudite), al-diyār et al-Dīra dans le rétroviseur

Art. in French in Arabian Humanities in 2023, Vincent Battesti & Léo Marty

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.

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.

Working list of named types of date palms cultivated in al-‘Ulā oasis (KSA)

Research report 2023 (in English).

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

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

Oasis palm groves, ecosystems designed by humans

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

Nec pluribus impar, The idiosyncratic sensory of an extraterrestrial anthropology. Research residency in weightlessness at the “Observatoire de l’Espace”

Art. in French (2022). First hot report on a double fieldwork in Novespace with the CNES Observatoire de l’Espace.

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.

Is Barnī, a date palm cultivated in the oasis of al-‘Ulā, a true-to-type cultivar or an ethnovariety? Arguments from ethnographic and genetic data

Report (2021) (in English)

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

Chapter (in English) published in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies edited by Michael Bull and Marcel Cobussen (2020).

The Mediterranean oases

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

Restaurants - Cities in the Maghreb and the Middle East

Chapter in Bénédicte Florin, Anna Madoeuf, Olivier Sanmartin, Roman Stadnicki & Florence Troin (dirs), Abécédaire de la ville au Maghreb et au (…)

Leisure - Cities in the Maghreb and the Middle East

Chapter in Bénédicte Florin, Anna Madoeuf, Olivier Sanmartin, Roman Stadnicki & Florence Troin (dirs), Abécédaire de la ville au Maghreb et au (…)

Festivals & Celebrations - Cities in the Maghreb and the Middle East

Chapter in Bénédicte Florin, Anna Madoeuf, Olivier Sanmartin, Roman Stadnicki & Florence Troin (dirs), Abécédaire de la ville au Maghreb et au (…)

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 (…)

Tomatoes in the heart of the Sahara

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

Anthropological issues of the communities of al-‘Ulā oasis: Scientific and synthesis note

Report: — New —

Dates

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

Between environmental controversies and development projects: the landscape to the test of the senses

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

Between environmental controversies and development projects: the landscape to the test of the senses

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

Listening to the World, with MILSON, the anthropologists of sound environments

Just published! Audio tracks: “The voice of Cairo - Egypt” & “The coffees of Cairo - Egypt”, in Monica Fantini & Christine Guillebaud, (…)

Oases, networks nodes

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

The possibilities of an island: Oasian insularities in the Sahara and Genesis of oases

Chap. (in French) for the book G. Tallet & T. Sauzeau (eds.), Mer et désert de l’Antiquité à nos jours, Approches croisées, Presses (…)

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 — « (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

“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.

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

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)

Wādī Abū Ṣubeīra, Feb. 2015, Field Note Summary, Social Anthropology | Wādī Abū Ṣubeīra, fév. 2015, Synthèse de notes de terrain, Anthropologie sociale

Resources and appropriations: Return, after the revolution, to the oases of Jerid (Tunisia)

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

The Date Palm: Origin and Cultivation in the Middle East and in Egypt

Journal issue (in English and French) edited with Margareta Tengberg, and Claire Newton, Revue d’ethnoécologie, “The Date Palm: Origin and (…)

The agrobiodiversity of the Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) in Siwa Oasis (Egypt): between what is said, written, and forgotten

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]

“The unrivalled tree”. Date palms and palm groves in the Middle East and Egypt, from Prehistory to the present day

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

“The atmosphere is great”, or the evanescent relationship to soundscapes in Cairo

Invitation to a participant listening and proposal of an analytical perspective. Chap. (in French), in Joël Candau & Marie-Barbara Le (…)

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) (…)

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, (…)

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, (…)

The Egyptian Cinema and the Social Classes Issue

Translation (to French) of a chapter for the book V. Battesti & F. Ireton (eds.), L’Égypte au présent, Inventaire d’une société avant (…)

Linguistic Practices and Social Contexts

Collaboration to and translation (to French) of a chapter of the book V. Battesti & F. Ireton (eds.), L’Égypte au présent, Inventaire d’une (…)

Practices and experiences of a popular Egyptian Islam

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

How anyone can be urban? Cities and urban lives

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

Foreword & Introduction to Contemporary Egypt

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

Prelude: conversation in a Cairo taxi

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

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 (…)

Natural and cultural landscapes, changes and preservation

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

From Siwa to Cairo, the making of heritage feeds from the Others’ desire

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, (…)

Sound ambiances of Cairo: To propose an anthropology of sound environments

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

Tourism in oasis, Natural and cultural mirages of an encounter?

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” (…)

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 (…)

Oasis (among other things)

Contributions to Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia

Fieldworks of Egypt: introduction (“Field shifts”, The production of anthropological knowledge in Egypt)

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

Fieldworks of Egypt, Contemporary anthropologies

Edition, with Nicolas Puig, of a volume of the Égypte-Monde Arabe journal, on the “Terrains d’Égypte, anthropologies contemporaines” [Fieldworks (…)

“Why should I go to see from above things I already know from below?”

Article (in French) in the volume 3/3rd serie of Egypte/Monde arabe, 2006. Original title: “Pourquoi j’irais voir d’en haut ce que je connais déjà (…)

The Art of Telling It [Translation to French]

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

Dwelling with feet of clay, Trials and tribulations of construction materials and techniques in Siwa (Egypt)

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

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

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

Berber children of Siwa (Egypt) draw their oasis.

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 (…)

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, (…)

Some Public Spaces in Cairo: the Parks

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

Agriculture

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

Sounds of public spaces in Cairo

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 (…)

The history of the gardens in Cairo till the 18^th century [Group of research]

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

A Sui Generis Scent: 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

The oases of Jerid, natural and ideal resources

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

An Outline of a Yemeni Body Language (Taiz and Sanaa)

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

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

French abstract of the Doctorate Thesis, Saharan Studies Association Newsletter

The temporal scales in the Jerid oases (Tunisia)

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

The equivocal relations and the oases

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

The sense of the places, Spaces and pratices in the palm groves of the Jerid (Southwest Tunisia)

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

The oases of Jerid: permanent revolutions?

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

Works in progress…

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

Open access archiving: on HAL Open archives

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