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Entretiens avec Jean Benoist
Jean Benoist est médecin et anthropologue. Successivement chef de laboratoire des Instituts Pasteur d'outre-mer, puis professeur à l'université de Montréal et à celle d'Aix-en-Provence, il est notamment reconnu pour avoir travaillé sur les sociétés créoles, en particulier à la Martinique et à La Réunion, des départements d'outre-mer français et à l'île Maurice. Il y a étudié les sociétés de plantation et les formes de l'hindouisme implanté dans les îles (Antilles, Mascareignes) par les travailleurs immigrés au XIXe siècle. Il a contribué au développement de l'anthropologie au Québec et à la connaissance des structures sociales et culturelles des sociétés créoles, et en particulier de leur rapport au religieux, mais aussi à la compréhension des rapports entre les pratiques médicales et la culture : une part importante de ses travaux porte aussi sur l'anthropologie médicale, qu'il a enseignée à Aix-en-Provence de 1981 à 2000. Il a aussi créé le Centre de recherches caraïbes de l'Université de Montréal et l'association AMADES (Anthropologie médicale appliquée au développement et à la santé).
La Dynamique biosociale
Res. en francés e inglés.
Sounding the Cape
For several centuries Cape Town has accommodated a great variety of musical genres which have usually been associated with specific population groups living in and around the city. Musical styles and genres produced in Cape Town have therefore been assigned an "identity" which is first and foremost social. This volume tries to question the relationship established between musical styles and genres, and social - in this case pseudo-racial - identities. In Sounding the Cape, Denis-Constant Martin recomposes and examines through the theoretical prism of creolisation the history of music in Cape Town, deploying analytical tools borrowed from the most recent studies of identity configurations. He...
The Work of Mourning
Jacques Derrida is, in the words of the New York Times, "perhaps the world's most famous philosopher—if not the only famous philosopher." He often provokes controversy as soon as his name is mentioned. But he also inspires the respect that comes from an illustrious career, and, among many who were his colleagues and peers, he inspired friendship. The Work of Mourning is a collection that honors those friendships in the wake of passing. Gathered here are texts—letters of condolence, memorial essays, eulogies, funeral orations—written after the deaths of well-known figures: Roland Barthes, Paul de Man, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Edmond Jabès, Louis Marin, Sarah Kofman, Gilles Del...
Concepts and Patterns of Service in the Later Middle Ages
The notion of service was ingrained in medieval culture, and not just as part of the wider concept of patronage. These studies examine the nature and importance of service in the 14th and 15th centuries in a variety of contexts.
The Teaching Office in the Reformed Tradition
This is a study of the church's formulation of its teaching ministry in periods preceding our own, particularly in the Reformation era. The author finds that the office of "doctor" or teacher, like the offices of pastor, elder, and deacon, was postulated by Calvin as an integral part of the "public ministry." In a preliminary historical review Dr. Henderson surveys the conditions obtaining in northern Europe during the Renaissance as a background to understanding the situation that Calvin found in Geneva. He then studies the doctoral office as it existed in sixteenth-century Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, and Scotland, through which Continental Calvinism was transmitted to the British...
The Shock of the Ancient
The cultural battle known as the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns served as a sly cover for more deeply opposed views about the value of literature and the arts. One of the most public controversies of early modern Europe, the Quarrel has most often been depicted as pitting antiquarian conservatives against the insurgent critics of established authority. The Shock of the Ancient turns the canonical vision of those events on its head by demonstrating how the defenders of Greek literature—rather than clinging to an outmoded tradition—celebrated the radically different practices of the ancient world. At a time when the constraints of decorum and the politics of French absolutism quashed ...
The Cardinal of Lorraine and the Council of Trent
This 1930 volume maintains that the first two and a half years of the pontificate of Pius IV, during which the continuation of the Council of Trent was secured against strong French and German opposition, constituted the critical period which finally determined the ultimate orientation of the Counter-Reformation.
Beyond the Threshold
What happens when we cross a significant boundary? We step into an unsettling in-between zone, where we have to abandon accepted structures and truths. Yet this liminal zone can also open up possibilities for inner transformation, leading to the birth of a new sense of fellowship. Since 1994, South Africans have been experiencing the anxieties of old structures breaking down and of new ones being built - a process that South African authors have been powerfully representing and questioning. Beyond the Threshold analyzes the transformative powers of liminal states and hybridizing processes in literature. Its authors discuss a wide range of intriguing liminal characters, dangerous liminal situations, and unique transformations in recent books mainly from South Africa. These books tell the compelling stories of marginal characters, giving their stories moral authority while exploring their transformative possibilities.
Consciousness and inquiry
The papers in this volume were prepared for Consciousness and Inquiry, a conference jointly sponsored by the National Museum of Man and the Canadian Ethnology Society, and held in London, Ontario in 1981. The papers focus on interests and concerns which characterize contemporary Canadian ethnology.
