Anthropology / ethnology / social studies

An ethnographic wander in the streets of Paris.

A hybrid project combining research, archival work, and creation, dedicated to Brazilian Candomblé—a possession cult that arrived in the country with the slave trade and reflects the beliefs and rituals of West Africa.

A hybrid project combining research, archival work, and creation, dedicated to Brazilian Candomblé—a possession cult that arrived in the country with the slave trade and reflects the beliefs and rituals of West Africa.

The classic question of “proof by image” rethought in the light of contemporary practices and technological developments, notably the transformation of the way images are captured and circulated in the digital age.

An insect theory of media to understand our media devices and our technological modernity.

By retracing the history of three colossal candelabras made by Piranesi (1720–78) from fragments of ancient Roman sculptures, Caroline van Eck introduces us to the complicated journey of art objects from their production to their reception, and tests the effectiveness of anthropological methods by isolating what relates to the commodification of art objects and their singularization.

Witches of Design interweaves design with the rebellious and feminist figure of the witch, based on the history of the messianic, socialist, utopian, and egalitarian Shaker sect in the 18th century.

Witches of Design interweaves design with the rebellious and feminist figure of the witch, based on the history of the messianic, socialist, utopian, and egalitarian Shaker sect in the 18th century.

Witches of Design interweaves design with the rebellious and feminist figure of the witch, based on the history of the messianic, socialist, utopian, and egalitarian Shaker sect in the 18th century.

Witches of Design interweaves design with the rebellious and feminist figure of the witch, based on the history of the messianic, socialist, utopian, and egalitarian Shaker sect in the 18th century.

Colonial images, educational images. A major study in art history in which Sophie Leclercq, drawing on and analyzing multiple sources, texts, and visual documents, sheds light on a blind spot in French colonialism: how, between 1870 and 1960, children were taught about colonial conquest through edifying imagery, and how their view of colonized populations was shaped?

As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic kitchen objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room (new edition).

As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic bathroom objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room (new edition).

As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic bathroom objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room.

As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic kitchen objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room.

As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic kitchen objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room (new edition)

As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic bathroom objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room (new edition).

As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic bathroom objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room.

As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic kitchen objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room

Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa revisits a sequence of Morocco's cultural history: the encounter of two anthropologists and the intersecting history of their approaches to popular and traditional art objects.

The social, political, and anthropological implications of image production by machines, which permeate all spheres of existence and reconfigure the visible.

A seminal exploration into screens' crucial functions and profound impact on human culture.

A non-relationalist anthropological approach to singularity.

A cross-disciplinary and critical reflection on the philosophical stakes of so-called "artificial intelligence", from an epistemological, political and cultural point of view, beyond naive fascination and ignorant rejection.

A history of art in France from the women's perspective.

An anthropological-acoustic study of the aftermath of war.

The inaugural issue of the journal of psychoanalysis and interdisciplinary discussions, around the figure of the fold.

A contemporary artist and an anthropologist engage in dialogue with the history of anthropology, philosophy, and art in an attempt to approach the singularity of the human being.

A groundbreaking curatorial proposal by Jean-Hubert Martin, bringing together five galleries with very different specialties (primitive arts, art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, antiquarian books and incunabula, Surrealism and modern art, Nouveau Réalisme and contemporary art).

Artists' activity examined through the notion of reparation, from the interdisciplinary perspective of the living arts (theater, dance, performance, mediation, multiple practices).

An unclassifiable classic, precursor of the “material turn” and of media theory, finally reissued.

Both an introduction to and an extension of the eponymous exhibition at the Mucem in Marseille, this catalogue offers an accessible and sensitive immersion in the richness of Amazigh culture, from the Neolithic to the present day.

A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.

Drawing on the notion of “cultural technique”, Bernhard Siegert thoroughly revitalizes posthumanist media studies.

A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.

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.

From the observation of a society of capuchin monkeys and thought experiments borrowed from theater, Zaven Paré, artist and researcher in interaction design, specialist in theater and robotics, attempts to dismantle the pitfalls of anthropomorphization, in an attention that seeks to preserve the irreducible character of an interspecific copresence.

A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.

What does Bergson bring to the history of the concept of "structure" even before the advent of structuralism? Why is his approach still relevant today? Sébastien Miravete proposes a rereading of Bergsonian philosophy to show how it outlines an other structuralist metaphysics, which can inspire all 21st century thought.

A non-Western way of thinking (a playful interweaving of connections between history and the present and between world regions and disciplines).

Emanuele Coccia analyzes Ernesto Neto's artistic practice and its profound relationship to the body, the senses, the environment and the wider community.

An archeological inventory of the bizarre beauty of art brut, popular gardens and improbable architecture, palaces and tree castles, chapels and converted caves, concrete and matchstick models, rustic furniture and animal sculptures, caravans and flying bicycles, calvaries... and the last homes of creators of all kinds (mental patients, abbots, bistro owners or self-proclaimed artists), most of which now only exist on postcards from the period, around 1900.

Marion Laval-Jeantet's research into therapeutic care continues her work with Benoît Mangin under the name of Object-Oriented Art on microbiota, at the crossroads of scientific art, biology, anthropology, psychology and ethology.

The social, historical and cultural dimensions of the skin in Brazilian art and literature.

An essay that intellectually deepens the historically traced furrows of colonial aberrations, crossing political science, philosophy, anthropology and psychoanalysis.

Two lectures from art historian and curator Griselda Pollock address feminist questions and art education in the 1980s and today.

An education turned around by art: famous English anthropologist Tim Ingold invites us to consider the arts as the very basis of an education in the 21st-century, an education that might begin to address the profound social and ecological crises we face.

Three perspectives (philosophical, sociological and artist's word) on the meaning of the avant-garde, and its relationship to the counter-culture.