During the exhumation of mass graves in Guatemala, forensic scientists and community members work together to identify the dead. Although their methods may appear irreconcilable, Alexa Hagerty shows in this beautiful text how the dead have a way of reminding themselves to the living that blurs the boundaries between science and dreams, between the biomedical conception of the body and the liveliness of bones – and haunts the anthropologist herself.
Paletó, le père adoptif de l’anthropologue Aparecida Vilaça, est mort en 2017. En lui rendant hommage, elle évoque les trente années passées auprès des Wari’, peuple indigène du Rondônia, dans un entretien avec Anne-Christine Taylor.
What is silencing? This issue of Terrain seeks to interrogate empirically the diversity of representations and practices of censorship.
Marie Mauzé. Anthropologue. Directrice de recherche au CNRS, Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale, EHESS “Of all the arts of which traces remain, that of the First Nations of the Northwest coast is certainly one of the greatest.” These are the words...
The vast discrepancy between abhorrence of bestiality and acceptance of slaughtering on animals suggests that thinking imaginatively about animal orgasm may help us to be more compassionate toward animals.
In Autumn 2015, Terrain, for so long a central figure of the French anthropological and academic landscape, bowed out with a final issue dedicated to the theme of nostalgia. Today, it is reborn with new partners and a new editorial...
10 avril 2024
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Animal culte – Appel à contributions
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