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}

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

Strontium isotope evidence for Pre-Islamic cotton cultivation in Arabia

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

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

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

Edited book in French. Oct. 2024

Deserts. Living in an Extreme Environment

Ed. (in French) part III of a collective work: Deserts, Living in Extreme Environments, 2024

Humans in the Deserts
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