ANTHROPOLOGY

As a doctor of anthropology, I am interested in the processes of organization and transformation of human societies.
I began this exploration in the 1990s through
musical practices. I thus multiplied my ethnographic fieldwork in Africa and Asia, as well as in France, documenting the historical transition between vernacular practices and globalized integration. These action research projects led me to examine sociocultural dynamics, particularly popular techniques for strengthening social cohesion, and more specifically ritual and festive gatherings.
I then turned my attention to
family structures and their impact on societies. I thus devoted my doctoral thesis to the dynamic continuity between the family microcosm and the modern state, based on fieldwork in rural Madagascar, illustrating Claude Levi-Strauss's hypothesis on the importance of bilateral kinship (based on the equality of the paternal and maternal branches) in the processes of transformation of human societies.
I am currently continuing this exploration through studies on prehistory, ritual gatherings, antiquity, the nation-state, etc. My project is to sketch out an anthropological interpretation of the social and cultural
transformations experienced by humanity and to highlight the
fundamental principles that drive them, drawing on data from ethnology, archaeology, ethology, history, political science, the study of dynamic systems, etc.
Next article :
Femmes, rituels, réseaux. Ethnographie malgache et archéologie génétique.
('Women, rituals, networks. Malagasy ethnography and genetic archaelogy.")
[Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française, June 2025]