Canthel – Centre d'Anthropologie Culturelle (EA 45 45)

Organizations, Artifacts and Practices (OAP) workshop has been set up in 2011 at Université Paris-Dauphine (France). It is organized every year (in June or July). The workshop is about the relationships between artifacts, organizations/organizing and practices. It it grounded into the material and ontological turns in management and organization studies. the 7th OAP  will take...

Le don constitue l’un des enjeux théoriques les plus pérennes des sciences sociales et humaines. Chemin faisant, il a suscité de nombreux débats, notamment en anthropologie, qui l’ont fait sortir de son contenu sémantique premier (donner sans attendre en retour). Sa spécificité a été interrogée au regard de types de transactions multiples (échanges, transmission, collaboration,...

Lydia Cabrera’s two decades of ethnographic research among Afro-Cuban communities produced an extraordinary body of publications on Afro Caribbean religions and folklore. Nevertheless, her oeuvre remains relatively unknown outside the Spanish-speaking world and very little of it has been translated. A white upper- middle class woman without formal training as an ethnographer or anthropologist, Cabrera...