The anthropologist and history
Four articles published in Annals try to renew the links between anthropology and history through the study of Guinea-Malian epics,
Bacon of Verulam, cartographer of science
Chantal Jaquet discovers a Bacon who goes off the beaten track: to conquer the sciences, philosophy had to rely on
Communities in global governance
By breaking with an excessively technicist and functionalist approach to governance, this collective work offers, thanks to the use of
Sport in colonies
The history of colonial spaces teaches that sporting practices imported by imperial powers, far from being the unequivocal imposition of
Bioethics: the gift under debate
On the occasion of the February 2011 revision of the bioethics laws in parliament – which should by all appearances
Fiction, a philosophical tool
Philosophy is full of fictions, which, far from being simple rhetorical devices, help to represent possible worlds, even more which
Citizens and their police
What is the font for? ? To maintain public order, of course. But can it achieve this if it does
Another story of Enlightenment Jansenism
Nicolas Lyon-Caen offers a new socio-religious reading of the history of Jansenism in XVIIIe century. Studying from the Parisian case
I have two mothers
An unprecedented sociological survey in France studies the adaptation of lesbian mothers to the dominant heterosexual norm and the new
Being and neon
Take an everyday object, explain its method of manufacture and uses, bring back from the archives some emblematic characters of