Anthropologie sociale du monde indien

Republication de l'entretien avec Jean-Claude GALEY, par Natalia SEMENOVA et Muriel CHEMOUNY.

CURRENT POSITIONS

Directeur d'études: Anthropologie sociale de l'Inde et du monde indien
Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales.
Anthropologie Sociale de l'Inde.
54 Boulevard Raspail - 75006 Paris.

Professor 2 : Department of Social Anthropology, Oslo University,
P.O.Box 1091,Blindern.Oslo N-0317,Norway.

Editor: 'Social Anthropology'. Journal of the European Asociation of Social Anthropologists. (EASA) Cambridge University Press.


ACADEMIC DEGREES

B.A. Neuro- and Psycho-physiology. Paris Sorbonne,1969
B.A. Clinical Psychology. Paris Sorbonne,1969
M.A.(honours) Social and Clinical Psychology. Paris,1970
M.A. Ethnology. Paris Sorbonne,1970

Ph.D. Social Anthropology. Paris. University of Paris X, Nanterre,1973
Supervisor: Louis DUMONT, Directeur d'études EPHE VIth section.
Title : "Conceptions of land tenure in India before independence".

SUBJECTS AND AREAS OF INTEREST

India and South Asia : Caste systems, Kingship, 'Caste and Tribe', Socio-political and religious movements. Perceptions and Constructions of Nature. Communalism and communautarism.

Anthropology : Social morphology, Ritual, Exchanges, Theories of Anthropology, Comparison Cultural constructions of Political Systems. Ethnohistory, Ideology and Values.

PAST POSITIONS

1979-80 Visiting Associate Professor. University of Chicago Department of Anthropology & Centre for South Asian Studies.
1978-86 Director, Centre d'études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du sud. Paris, EHESS-CNRS.
1987 Visiting Scholar, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, U.K. Member of the Common room, Wolfson College, Oxford U.K.
1988-89 Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, University of Cambridge,U.K. Overseas Fellow, Churchill College,Cambridge U.K.
1992 Visiting Professor, Department and Institute of Anthropology University of Oslo, Norway.
1994 Visiting Professor. Department of History and Social Sciences Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
1994 Visiting Professor. Department of History and Centre for South Asian Studies. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.U.S.A.
1996 Visiting Scholar and Fellow. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
1996 Guest Professor. Oslo Summer School. Comparative Social Science Studies. 'Nationalisms and the Nation.'
1998 Visiting Professor. Universidade de Guatemala.
2000-1 Visiting Research Fellow. All Souls College, Oxford.
2001-2 Fellow in Residence. The Netherland Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Wassenaar, NL.
2004 Visiting Fellow. International Institute of Asian Studies, (IIAS) Leiden-Amsterdam, NL.

OTHER CURRENT POSITIONS

1991- Member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).
1993- Member of the Centre for Advanced Research in Indigenous Know- ledge systems (CARIKS), Indo-Dutch Program for the Anthropology of Development (IDPAD). Leiden-Mysore, The Netherlands, Karnataka India.
1994- Associate Member, Institute of Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (IASSA), University of Göteborg, Sweden.
1995- Professor II, Department and Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway. 1996- Membre du Conseil du Fonds Louis Dumont pour la recherche.
1996- Membre du Conseil des directeurs de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme. Paris.
2001- Membre élu du Conseil d'administration de l'EHESS. Paris.
2003- Membre du Conseil de Laboratoire. Centre d'études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du sud (CEIAS), EHESS-CNRS. Paris. Membre du Conseil scientifique du pôle Asie. Direction de la coopération scientifique de la recherche.Ministère des Affaires Etrangères. Paris.

OTHER ACADEMIC RESPONSABILITIES

1986- EHESS, Paris. Member, Commission des enseignements.
1988- EHESS, Paris. Member, Conseil pédagogique de la Formation doctorale d'Ethnologie.
1986-1998 : Editor and Secretary of the series: "French Studies on South Asian Culture and Society". New-Delhi, Oxford University Press.
1985-1998 : Member of the Editorial Board : 'GradHiva, Editions Jean-Michel Place, Paris. 'Etudes Rurales', Editions Armand Colin, Paris.

FIELD EXPERIENCE

1969-70 Africa : North Cameroon.
1970-71 France : Beaujolais-Bourgogne.
1973-1975 : North India, Himalayan districts of Uttar Pradesh.
1977, 1979, 1980, 1985 : North India, id. 1987,
1992 : South India, Karnataka, South Canara and Shimoga Districts.
1999 : Central India (Orissa, Ma dhya Pradesh, Rajasthan) Previous prin- cely States. in collaboration with : Bhuvaneshvar: Indo-German Orissa Project, Jaipur, Institute of Development Studies.

PUBLICATIONS

1984 Différences,Valeurs,Hiérarchie. Textes offerts à Louis Dumont. Paris, Editions de l'EHESS.
1985 L'espace du Temple,I : Espaces itinéraires, médiations. Paris, Editions de l'EHESS.
1986a L'espace du Temple,II : Les sanctuaires dans le royaume. Paris, Editions de l'EHESS.
1986b Les angles de l'Inde. Annales,E.S.C, vol.5.pp.969-999.
1989 Kingship and the Kings. New York,Gordon & Breach, Harwood Academic Publishers.
1991 (coed.) Dictionnaire de l'anthropologie sociale et de l'ethnologie Paris, Presses Universitaires de France. (2nd rev.ed.1996).
1993 L'Homme en nature. Hindouisme et Pensée Sauvage. in: Les sentiments de la nature. Paris, Editions La Découverte 'Essais', pp. 47-72.
1994a L'universel dans la localité.Implications sociologiques du pèleri- nage en Inde. Revue d'histoire des religions. Paris,PUF.pp.259-296
1994b Hindu kingship in its ritual realm: the Garhwali configuration. Himalaya Past & Present. voL.2. Almora,Books depot. pp.173-239.
1995a Exercising comparative scales. O rosto feminino da expansao por- tuguesa. Lisbonne, Fondation Gulbenkian, vol.1,pp.621-28. 1998 'Caste' Dictionnaire des peuples. Paris, Larousse.
1995b Nature et territoire des morts. Les cultes aux Bhutas du pays Tulu (South Canara, Karnataka, Inde du sud). in: L.de Heusch & G.Thines eds. Rites et ritualisation. Paris, Vrin.pp.149 sq.
1999a Louis Dumont (1911-1998), an enduring consistency. EASA,Newsletter n°25. Barcelona EASA pp.13-18.
1999b Micro-historical settings in an anthropological venture. Social Anthropology, voL.7,n°1, pp.87-94.
1999c L'ombre portée du renonçant indien. Bulletin de l'Association Française des Anthropologues,n°76,Mars. Paris,MSH,pp.147-52.
1999d L'exactitude marche sans dogme. Bulletin de l'Association France- Union Indienne, n°40. Paris,MSH,pp.4-18.
2000a Fredrik BARTH. Dictionnaire de l'anthropologie sociale et de l'ethnologie. (3rd ed. paperback). Paris, PUF. p.770-71.
2000b L'esprit et la raison. Droit et cultures,vol.39 n°1.pp.67-84,Mai.
2000c 'L'ethnie': the vicissitudes of a concept (trad.de Luc de Heusch) Social Anthropology,vol.8,n°2. June. 25 pages.
2000d A committed distanciation : Louis Dumont (1911-1998). American Anthropologist, June, 30 pages.
2000e Louis Dumont: travaux et publications. Droit et cultures, vol.39,n°1,pp.225-232.
2002 Der Mensch in der Natur. Hinduismus und wildes Denken. in : A.Gingrich & Elke Mader,eds. Metamorphosen der Natur. Sozial Anthropologische Untersuchungen zum Verhältnis von Weltbild und natürlichre Umwelt. Wien, Böhlau Verlag. pp.161-183
2003 Questions de définition et d'échelles : la multiplicité des méthodologies. In : Identités et territoire, Calcutta, AJEI pp.58-64.



IN PROGRESS

- J.C.Galey,ed. A comparative ethnology of debt. London, Routledge 232p.
- L'anthropologie concertante ou les avants-gardes inactuelles de Louis Dumont. L'Homme, 26pages.
- Anthropology and the institutionalisation of meaning. Social Anthropology, vol.13,n°3. 20pages.
- Comprehensive scaffholdings: scaling intertranslation and return. in: Richard Fox & André Gingrich, eds. Comparative dimensions in social and cultural anthropology. Vienna, Institut für Ethnologie.30p.
- 'Kingship'. International Encyclopædia of Social Sciences, new edition Ulf Hannerz, ed. Oxford, Elsevier Pubns. 18 pages.
- Politiques de conversion et conversion au politique. L'Inde des Jésui- tes et d'une histoire. Annales, E.S.C. 2004, n°.5.
- Translating across boundaries. (The Radhakrishnan Lectures for 2001, Oxford, Oriental Institute and All Souls College).
- In society's imaginary. The absented king and enduring royal function in two former kingdoms of contemporary India. (The Josselin de Jong Memorial Lecture. Leiden. Faculty of social Sciences and CNWS).

FORMAL LECTURES

2001 (February) Oxford. The Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures. The Oriental Institute and All Souls College :
Inter-translating across boundaries : the experience of comparison in the Anthropology of India.
1 - Barren encounters, fertile misunderstandings : Radhakrishnan in the legacy of his critics.
2 - Contextualizing universals: morality of the present or inven- tivity of tradition ?
3 - Knowledge as dwelling : intentionality, institutions and experience.

2002 (June) Leiden. The Josselin de Jong Memorial Lecture.
The University of Leiden (CNWS and IIAS) :
In society's imaginary. The absented king and the enduring realm within two regional caste systems of democratic India.