Anthropology / ethnology / social studies

This 4th issue of the anthropology journal explores the tension between indeterminacy and narrative in archaeology and art.

Through a series of scientific contributions and archives, this publication recounts the extraordinary character that was Hercule Florence—an explorer, an inventor and an artist, considered one of the inventors of photography.

A landmark study on the psychological effects of oppression on Black Americans during the 1940s.

A reflection on history and the historical document, based on the chronicles of a village written in the 19th century by a Walloon worker.

An ethnological study of witchcraft in West Africa, based on field research conducted in five countries between 1994 and 2000.

Becoming Palm is the outcome of a conversation between two friends, artist Simryn Gill and anthropologist Michael Taussig, addressing the complexities of palm oil and “the enormous transformations, human, and ecological, that this crop engenders” (Taussig) in two disparate geographical locations, Southeast Asia and South America.

This collaborative journey between Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto and members from the Huni Kuin indigenous communities brings to the fore the concept of “ancestral futures” and extends the concerns that have been evident in Neto's oeuvre over the past 20 years: a celebration of the sensuality of being, the unity of bodies and nature, and a longing for spiritual vision.

Postmodernism and gift culture: everyday objects in contemporary art since the 1960s.

A story of the Grévin wax museum in Paris from 1881 to 1921.

An essay conceived as an intellectual portrait of the German writer, psychologist and art theorist Karl Philipp Moritz, whose purpose is to investigate the relationships between aesthetics, psychology and anthropology in the second half of the 18th century, and the importance of their simultaneous development for the debates about art after 1800.

Photographic inventory of the rural landscapes of Switzerland and France, combining original photographs and found pictures customized by the artist. An ethnological and sociological approach which culminates in a poetry of the ordinary.

Outside museums, on the roadsides, a journey through the gardens and backyards of Europe and America to discover the "madmen's art": an illustrated essay on the birth and the future of Art Brut (new expanded edition).

An intervened facsimile of a anthropological catalogue listing the items belonging to three collections of Mexican fabrics and weaving patterns constituted during the mid-seventies.

Marxist geographer David Harvey opened his 2016 lecture at Harvard with a fact: between 2011 and 2013 China consumed 50 percent more cement than the United States had in the entire twentieth century. In Abstract from the Concrete, he asks why.

Fully Fueled brings together pictures taken from 2012 to 2014 documenting the life of Emiratis through the lense of cars.

Taking the form of a dialogue between the philosopher Judith Butler and the anthropologist Athena Athanasiou, this thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism, liberalism, and humanism.

The political dimension of Visual Studies, between Francophone and Anglo-American studies.

A sourcebook / critical anthology of social art history.

A sourcebook / critical anthology of social art history.

A photographic documentation from a field research on folk athletic contests in male rural Finland in the beginning of the 20th century.

The new impact of corporations on both the state and the market as the new paradigm of neoliberalism.

An encounter between ethnology and literature.

Ambiguity is inherent in images because visual perception is an interpretative act involving memory and imagination. Modern art has made this aspect of perception crucial to its relationship with the viewer. Images potentielles (Potential Images), the first systematic exploration of this topic, considers those works of art that rely to a great degree on imaginative response.

This publication describes the making of a multiple-screen video installation made by Mario Pfeifer while living on Navarino Island, Chile. This anthropological film looks at the life of the descendants of the area's indigenous Yaghan people, and portrays a nation and community that is violently undergoing cultural and religious, social, political and economic transformation.

Proposals for an ecology of diagnosis.

This new monograph gathers 42 images documenting 3 years of photographs taken between 2011 and 2014 during the Purim holiday in the neighbourhood of Stamford Hill, London.

Musician Kamran Sadeghi took field recordings from an anthropological research on Tierra del Fuego as a starting point to compose his digital musical score for a video installation by Mario Pfeifer.

Comprehensive monograph.

A unique multidisciplinary approach to Visual Studies.

The return of the anthropological question has completely redesigned the issues of representation. A state of play.

“Ce qui ne sert pas s'oublie” (“What cannot be used is forgotten”) accompanies and extends the reach of the exhibition of the same title. Both deal with the mutating statuses of objects in relation to possible historical narratives, especially those related to colonial past and present and the layers of cultural, spiritual, and identity production that stem from them.

This cookbook is the outcome of a collective project for which random people opened the door of their kitchen to share their favorite recipe and tell their life experience. A celebration of life and cooking in 52 recipes and 31 portraits illustrated with colir photographs.

Since his historical research on the line, anthropologist Tim Ingold has been working closely with laboratoire des intuitions on diagrams. This unpublished text follows a working session at the Kandinsky Library at Centre Pompidou, Paris.

The photography book Kracauer. Photographic Archive is a collection of previously unpublished photographic material from the estate of the sociologist, philosopher, journalist and film and photograph theorist Siegfried Kracauer.

An epistemology of historical socialism (politics, natural sciences, humanities and religion in the early XIXth century).

Siegfried Kracauer was a leading intellectual figure of the Weimar Republic and one of the foremost representatives of critical theory. This volume brings together for the first time all of Kracauer's essays on photography that he wrote between 1927 and 1933. It includes a foreword by Philippe Despoix, and a curriculum vitae illustrated with photographs from the Kracauer estate.

Science and Pataphysics, volume I: the history of the origin myths—how science is torn from what is now defined as pseudo-science.

First issue of the biannual journal about trajectories of anthropology and archeology, initiated by Berlin-based Mexican artist Mariana Castillo Deball.

Works, authors and rights: music and dance in globalization.

Education and totalitarianism, in Central and Eastern Europe: a multidisciplinary reflection on totalitarianism as a political and anthropological project which, paradoxically, puts the question of education at the center of its concerns.

A study of social utopias (of European origin, mainly French) in Latin America in the 19th century: a contribution to the defense of utopia as a driving force of human progress, against all forms of utilitarianism and pragmatism.

First photography book by Emmanuelle Bayart, dedicated to memorial issues in the town of Sarcelles, in a “ville nouvelle” sociocultural context.

This publication investigates the historical accumulation and commodification of artefacts and the representation of the human body as seen on ethnographic photographs. New material developed out of artistic research in the Weltkulturen Labor is presented together with unpublished scientific photography. Extended conversations between internationally renowned anthropologists, art historians, curators and artists offer new connections between past and present. Foreign Exchange responds to current interest in the remediation of ethnographic collections, colonial history, historical archives, and interdisciplinary curatorial practice.

Social and political dimension of the emergence of a culture of the image carried by the amateur practice of photography in Germany at the dawn of the twentieth century.

A collective publication that brings together artists and researchers on the issue of the body.

An essay that renews the study of Gauguin, highlighting the consistency that connects the entire production of the painter, based on his exploration of the relationship between perception, cognition and imagination, and that connects his interests in psychology, ethnology, history of religion and the natural sciences, not to mention the art of all times and all cultures.