Cette recherche vise à déconstruire l’étiquette d’« hommes seuls » appliquée aux jeunes migrants maliens en banlieue parisienne. Loin d’être isolés, ils maintiennent des réseaux relationnels complexes et essentiels à leur identité. Le terrain ethnographique a révélé comment les transferts d’argent vers le Mali dépassent la simple dimension économique pour devenir un outil de construction d’une ...

Albert Piette chose to “note”, regretting that he was not an artist who could express “time”. As an anthropologist, he has transformed his fear of time into acts of noting that have become central to his own work. His father, his daughters’ childhoods, the moments of a day and his experience of a blocked nose are “noted”. The author’s main aim is to show how, on the basis of such daily notes on ...

This book deals with anthropological ideas, which it confronts with what seems to be a difficulty in anthropology: the human being, each singular human being, taken in themselves. Following this line of reading, the authors take us from Benedict to Radcliffe-Brown or Strathern. They focus particularly on contemporary theories of ecological, psychological, phenomenological and existential ...