This special issue brings together anthropologists, historians and ethnomusicologists to discuss how digital communication devices have continued, reinforced or altered the ways in which African people share sounds and images of performance. We argue that the production and circulation of musical files often follow historical patterns shaped by direct contact or older sound reproduction ...

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 ...