Anthropology | Ethnoecology | Sensory perceptions: Fieldworks in urban and oasis contexts (North Africa, Middle East), and Corsica    

Date palms of the Siwa oasis and the Saharan island network: Status of tested hypotheses

Lecture Sept. 2018

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  • The Oases
    • Oases in North Africa
    • Oasis of Egypt
      • Siwa oasis (Egypt)
        • Drawings of children on their oasian nature
        • Patrimonialization of the built
        • Material Culture in Siwa Oasis
        • Agriculture in Siwa
      • al-Dakhla and al-Kharga, oases of the Egyptian South
    • al-‘Ulā oasis, Saudi Arabia
      • al-‘Ulā AS Project: Anthropological survey of al-‘Ulā community and its oasis system
      • al-‘Ulā DPA Project: Ethnographic, genetic, and morphometric analyses of the date palm agrobiodiversity in al-‘Ulā oasis
  • Urban anthropology
    • Cairo (Egypt)
    • Urban spaces
    • Khartoum (Sudan)
  • Anthropology of Sensory Perceptions
    • Sound/Sensory Perceptions
      • Sonic anthropology
    • Extraterrestrial Anthropology
  • The ‘Abābda of the wādī Abū Subeīra
  • Gardens of Egypt
  • Gestures in the Arab world
  • Ideal wall natures
  • Corsica
    • CIRC : Interdisciplinary research center on Castagniccia
    • Project Castagniccia | Orezza (Corsica)
      • Historical demography and land strategies in the Orezza valley in Castagniccia, Corsica
      • Evolution of the agroecosystem of the Orezza valley in Castagniccia
      • An ethnobotany of the chestnut tree
    • Project CastaCorse
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      • Ornamental Gardens in Egypt
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• Tunisie / Tunisia / تونس
• Égypte / Egypt / مصر
• Oasis / واحة
• Oasis de Syouah / Siwa oasis / واحة سيوة
• Palmier dattier / Date Palm / النخلة

• Change in the Uses of Urban Public Spaces by Cairo People
• Gardens of the nature: Berber oasis of Siwa in Egypt
• The possibilities of an island: Oasian insularities in the Sahara
• The inventions of the Arabic-Muslim gardening natures
• The Power of Disappearance, Water and Jerid in Tunisia
• The oases’ natures of Jerid (Tunisia), some resources also conceptual
• The conception of the labour and the appreciation of the landscape in the Saharan oases
• The oasis gardens: Natures in construction
• “Environment needs clay!”, Evolutions of the habitat in the oasis of Siwa
• Subterfuge in the Domestication of the Date Palm (Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria)
• Change of uses of public spaces in Cairo: Downtown area and parks
• Anthropological investigations in Siwa: some data
• Parks in Cairo
• Siwa, Oasis of the Libyan Desert: The secret life of the gardens and their palm trees
• Oases gardens
• Oases as Socio-ecological Landscapes, The Jerid as an Example
• Natures in the city, Dreams, claims and practices: For a compared project from Cairo
• The oases of the Sahara: socio-natural constructions
• Sound ambiances of Cairo: The public space of the Wast al-Balad (Downtown)
• Seminar « Les révolutions en Égypte et en Tunisie ; et si on parlait d’autres choses ? »
• Can we do an ethnography of sound of Cairo?
• “The atmosphere is great”, or the evanescent relationship to soundscapes in Cairo
• Symposium “Landscape evolutions, domestication and agrodiversity”
• A Garden in the Desert
• The reinvention of ruin when you do not appreciate the landscape, and other spatial considerations in the Arab world
• Socioecological resources: mobilization of natural, ideal and practical resources in urban garden or oasis (Tunisia/ Egypt)
• Ownership of resources: a Tunisian update, Back to the oases of the Jerid in 2011
• Conference “Ownership of natural and heritage resources: Competitions and rights of access in the Mediterranean region”
• Place names of the land registry of Nocario (Haute-Corse), An ethnotoponymic approach
• Presentation of my Research project
• Anthropology of gardens: the gardens of oasis
• Mics in the ears: how to ask people in Cairo to talk about their sound universes
• Oasis, gardens in the desert
• Resource mobilization and models mobilization: a tragic agricultural coexistence in oases of the Jerid (Tunisia)?
• The agrobiodiversity of the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) in Siwa, an oasis of the Libyan Desert: what is said, written and forgotten
• In North Africa and the Middle East, To build, to dream and to anticipate his nature ... in order to escape the environment
• 1^st Afea Congress: Knowledge, No/Our Limit
• Saharan Oasis Gardens: The Beautiful as Sensual Contentment and the Landscape from Below
• To categorize date palms with no gene and embarrassment in Siwa, oasis of the Libyan Desert
• “Cultural Landscape” is a pleonasm and “Soundscape” is a tool
• Categorization of the date palm agrobiodiversity in the oasis of Siwa (Libyan Desert, Egypt): the olive tree categorization should it or can it be similar?
• BioDivMeX Prospective Workshop/ Atelier de prospective BioDivMeX
• Closure days of the seminar “Les révolutions en Égypte et en Tunisie; et si on parlait d’autres choses?”
• Les métiers du Muséum: Ethnoécologue
• Research seminar 2016-2018 Anthropologie des perceptions sensorielles
• Seminar/ talks of research 2016 Anthropologie des perceptions sensorielles: Apprendre
• “Ça, c’est le son de la société”. Enquêter sur les perceptions sonores au Caire
• To shun the sound and the fury: ambiances in the palm groves gardens of Siwa Oasis (Egypt)
• Corps sonores (4/4) : Acoustiques urbaines : les sons de la société
• Insularity Workshop WG2 in Kerkennah Islands (Tunisia)
• Domestication of date palms in Siwa oasis and across the Middle East and North Africa: articulate the scales of ethnography and domestication over the long term
• What are the palm trees of the Siwa oasis? Dialogue local and learned responses (morphometry, anthropology, and genetics)
• Insularity Workshop WG2 in Cyprus
• Insularity Workshop WG2 in Corsica/Cargese
• Restaurant, Leisure, Festivals & Celebrations
• Domains of urban life in public spaces in Cairo, Egypt
• Sound perception in Cairo: the city through the lens of a Sonic Ecology
• What is the use of a geneticist to an anthropologist, and vice versa: date palms in the Sahara
• Questions raised in ethnoecology? Oasis illustrations
• Why geneticists make mistakes. Talking about the date palms of Siwa oasis (Libyan desert, Egypt)
• Thinking oasis history from the present: date palm agrobiodiversity and Saharan insularities
• The oasis model across the Sahara and the Near East
• Cycle of conferences “History of the senses” at the Museum
• Perceptions and practices of its environment, contrasted in the oases and in the desert (Sahara, Arabia)
• What lies behind fruit crops variety names? The date palm as a case study
• The body put to the cosmic test (The fleshly sociology of manned space flight)