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 ...

This ‘dossier’ aims to approach the judicialisation of nature from an anthropological perspective. Drawing on various case studies, the issue brings together contributions on how different actors – activists, scientists, police officers or the legal community – handle the environmental damage caused by human activity or the threats such activity poses to animal species. How is the management of ...