Surveys

PASCALE-MARIE MILAN In the cold mountains of Sichuan (Liangshan) in China, about fifty kilometres from the Lugu Lake region subjected to the glare of the media, the author conducted an up-close ethnographic study of the Na. More than two years

DANIELA BOGNOLO The book on the Gan, a population located in the south-west region of Burkina Faso, guides us through the history of that small kingdom, where the relationship to the sacred took root with its founding near the end

JEAN-PIERRE JACOB Le pays winye est situé dans le centre-ouest du Burkina Faso. Il comprend une série de communautés installées dans la partie sud-est et sur la rive droite de la boucle du Mouhoun (ex-Volta noire), et sur les deux

GUSTAAF VERSWIJVER The aim of this essay is to acquaint people with the Kararaô, a group of Kayapo Indians in central Brazil, who in 2010 numbered only fifty-four, by focusing on their extremely complex history. The anthropologist Gustaaf Verswijver conducted

OK-KYUNG PAK On Jeju Island, located off the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula, jamnyo(women divers) meet in the early morning on the shore to enter the sea together. Fifteen days per month, they carry out this ritual of free

ALAIN-MICHEL BOYER Is Yaure an art de salon? How many Western collectors place one of their “ravishing” masks on a shelf, not considering that in a village the mask is so sacred that it is forbidden for any woman to

GUSTAAF VERSWIJVER This book focuses on the Jiye people and their closest neighbours, the Toposa. The Jiye population is less than eight thousand, which makes it one of the smallest groups in that part of South Sudan. It is a

CLÉMENT JACQUEMOUD The Altai Republic is located in a mountainous region on the outer reaches of Siberia, on the border of China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan. It is home to the Turkic Altaians, a small population group, renowned in ethnography for

DENIS RAMSEYER The Kouya belong to one of the smallest but also one of the least-known ethnic groups of Côte d’Ivoire. They speak a language that in 2001 was declared to be among the most threatened on the planet. This

GUIGONE CAMUS At the intersection of several disciplines, Guigone Camus’s ethnographic study of Tabiteua, an atoll part of the independent Republic of Kiribati, opens a window on the philosophical and spiritual depths, the poetry and the complexity with which the