Research in social anthropology
Vincent Battesti

CNRS / at Musée de l’Homme, Paris
– Ethnoecology: Saharan and Arabian oases, Corsican chestnut groves
– Urban Anthropology: Egypt and Sudan
– Anthropology of sensory perceptions

Ongoing research in the oasis of al-‘Ulā in Saudi Arabia

Social anthropology, ethnoecology and evolutionary biology: new research in the Kingdom’s north-western desert.

New! - Chap. (in French): — in Apprendre les sens, apprendre par les sens : Anthropologie des perceptions sensorielles, edited by Vincent Battesti & Joël Candau (2023).

Conditions and modalities of sensory enskilment: an anthropological disputatio

Art. (in English) in Arabian Humanities journal.

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

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

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

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

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

Edited book in French. Oct. 2024

Deserts. Living in an Extreme Environment

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

How oases work
Main current projects
Book in progress: The oasis of al-‘Ulā between two waves of change
Book in progress: The living heritage of an undervalued agrobiodiversity : an analytical survey of practices and categorization of date palms in al-‘Ulā oasis, Saudi Arabia