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Shifting Perspectives

by The editorial team, 17 August 2020

A Summer Selection, Part V
Review
Nature Beyond Dualism

by Claire Larroque, 6 April 2020

About: Les Natures en question, sous la direction de Philippe Descola, éditions Odile Jacob
Review
Learning from Animals

by Antoine Doré & Jérôme Michalon, 19 March 2020

About: Dominique Guillo, Les Fondements oubliés de la culture. Une approche écologique, Seuil

Articles

Review
Sontag as Metaphor

by Benjamin Balint, 13 February 2020

About: Benjamin Moser, Sontag: Her Life and Work, Ecco
Interview
Japanoise: Affect at the Edge of Music

by Edouard Degay Delpeuch, 29 November 2018

An Interview with David Novak
Review
Grand Tourism: Educational Journeys in 18^th Century Europe

by Marion Amblard, 29 October 2018

About: Paola Bianchi and Karin Wolfe eds., Turin and the British in the Age of the Grand Tour, Cambridge University Press
Essay
Mary Douglas, A Taste for Hierarchy

by François Buton & Eric Soriano, 9 July 2018

Though poorly known in France, the work of the anthropologist Mary Douglas is nonetheless essential for understanding the...
Review
Humanity and Butchery

by Coline Salaris, 25 June 2018

About: Florence Burgat, L’humanité carnivore, Seuil
Review
Of Trees and Signs

by Martin Fortier, 14 May 2018

About: Eduardo Kohn, Comment pensent les forêts : Vers une anthropologie au-delà de l’humain, Zones Sensibles
Review
Why Do We Restore Artworks and Many Other Objects?

by Bernard Sève, 15 March 2018

About: Jean-Pierre Cometti, Conserver/ Restaurer. L’œuvre d’art à l’époque de sa préservation technique, Gallimard
Review
The Great Wall of Britain

by Aurélien Allard, 20 July 2017

About: David Miller, Strangers in Our Midst, The Political Philosophy of Immigration, Harvard University Press.
Review
An Ethnography of Evictions in the United States

by Nicolas Duvoux, 23 June 2016

About: Matthew Desmond, Evicted. Poverty and Profit in the American City, Allen Lane.
Essay
Michel de Certeau

by Andrés G. Freijomil, 18 February 2016

The Redeployment of Knowledge
Interview
Class and Culture

by Nicolas Duvoux & Igor Martinache, 10 December 2015

An interview with Philippe Coulangeon
Interview
The Geometry of Differences

by Lucie Campos, 24 September 2015

An Interview with Barbara Cassin
Review
Does Cultural Capital Still Classify Us?

by Igor Martinache, 16 February 2015

À propos de : P. Coulangeon, J. Duval (eds.), Trente ans après La Distinction de Pierre Bourdieu, La Découverte
Review
The Fault is Not in Our “Stars”, but in Ourselves

by David A. Bell, 8 January 2015

About: Antoine Lilti, Figures publiques. L’invention de la célébrité, 1750-1850 [Public Figures. The Invention of Celebrity, 1750-1850], Paris, Fayard, 2014.
Essay
Are Novels Part of Our DNA?

by Alvaro Santana Acuña, 29 May 2014

What turns a literary work into a classic? Something critical is “lived experience,” that is, people read the literary work to...
Review
Creativity, Reason and Uncertainty

by Nathalie Heinich, 24 February 2014

About: Pierre-Michel Menger, Le Travail créateur: S’accomplir dans l’incertain [Creative Work: Achievements under Uncertainty], Gallimard/Seuil, 2009.
Review
Creativity as Labour

by Pierre-Michel Menger, 24 February 2014

What is Sociology of Art? (II)
Essay
Politics and Religion in Ancient Rome

by John Scheid, 28 November 2013

What is the place of freedom of worship under a State religion?
Essay
Why are people setting fire to libraries?

by Denis Merklen & Numa Murard, 7 November 2013

Social violence and written culture
Review
Take on the Color of the Dead

by Christian Jouhaud, 16 September 2013

About: Roger Chartier, Écouter les morts avec les yeux, Paris, Fayard, 2008
Review
Interweaving Eastern and Western Perspectives

by Christian Joschke, 2 May 2013

About: Hans Belting, Florence et Bagdad. Une histoire du regard entre orient et occident, Paris 2012. (English translation: Hans Belting, Florence and Baghdad Renaissance Art and Arab Science, Harvard University Press, 2011.)
Review
The Weather Factor

by Eiren Shea, 17 January 2013

About: Timothy Brook, The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010
Review
Comparing Race and Caste?

by Roland Lardinois, 25 May 2012

About: Kamala Visweswaran, Un/common Cultures. Racism and the Rearticulation of Cultural Difference, Duke University Press.
Review
Dutchmen and Javanese: Connected History

by Philippe Minard, 19 May 2012

About: Romain Bertrand, L’Histoire à parts égales, Seuil.
Review
Masses Taking Over The Square

by Kirill Postoutenko, 2 February 2012

About: Malte Rolf, Soviet Mass Festivals, ROSSPEN.
Dossier
European Citizenship on the March

by Florent Guénard, 24 October 2011

At a time when Europe is equated with sovereign debt and political powerlessness, one should not forget that the foundations...
Dossier
The Culture of Poverty

by Nicolas Duvoux, 19 July 2011

In the U.S., in France as well with Hugues Lagrange’s book on “the denial of cultures”, culture has again become the focus of...
Interview
Culture of poverty and Social Resilience

by Nicolas Duvoux & Elise Tenret & Nadège Vezinat, 20 May 2011

An interview with Michele Lamont
Essay
The FNAC: A Story of Standardization

by Frédérique Leblanc, 5 January 2011

About : V. Chabault, La FNAC, entre commerce et culture, Puf.
Interview
Invisible constraints

by Florent Brayard, 15 December 2010

Interview with Carlo Ginzburg
Review
European Union: Political Cultures, Languages and Civic Identities

by Jean-Claude Barbier, 15 November 2010

About: Kraus, A Union of Diversity & Fligstein, Euro-Clash.
Interview
A redrawing of the Red/Blue map in November 2010?

by Pauline Peretz, 22 October 2010

Five questions to Andrew Gelman about the coming midterm elections
Essay
1914-1918: Understanding the Controversy

by François Buton & André Loez & Nicolas Mariot & Philippe Olivera, 11 June 2009

Is the extreme violence of the Great War explained by the culture of war, the brutalization of societies, the soldiers’...

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