Mélanie Roustan
Mélanie Roustan is an anthropologist and museologist. Trained in London and Paris, she is now a teacher-researcher at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. She is interested in material objects, collections and the conservation of living things.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Œuvres en sociétés
An ethnographic approach to the zoo, revealing the tensions and contradictions of a cultural institution that inherited nature from the colonial exhibitions and has now entered the paradigm of biodiversity conservation.
