Born 1948
1986:
PhD in Social Anthropology, Institute of Higher Studies in
Social
Sciences (EHESS: 'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales'), Paris
Since 1988, Research Fellow, then Senior Research Fellow ('Directeur de recherche') at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Emeritus in 2013.
Member (1988-2009) of the Centre for Indian and South Asian Studies (CEIAS), Paris, a research institution jointly managed by the EHESS and the CNRS. I later joined (2010) the Research Centre for Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (LESC), jointly managed by the CNRS and the University Paris-West Nanterre, and was its director from 2010 to 2013.
Retired (emeritus) since January 2014.Contents:
1988-1991 ProgrammeViolence/
Non-Violence in India [Violences et non-violences en
Inde], coord. jointly with E. Meyer &
D. Vidal.
1989-1993
Programme Socio-Religious
Practices and Models in Sociology [Des pratiques
socio-religieuses aux modèles
sociologiques], coord. jointly with J. Assayag.
1990-1993
Programme The
Acculturation of Islam and Christianity in the Hindu World [Acculturation
de l'islam et du christianisme en
contexte hindou - pratiques et débats], coord. jointly with
J. Assayag.
1994-1997 Programme
The Body in India
[Le Corps en Inde], coord. jointly with V. Bouillier.
1997-2001 Programme
Hindu Rituals: Transfers
and Transformations [Rites hindous : transferts
et
transformations], coord. jointly with G. Colas.
2005-2009 Programme Childhoods in South Asia [Enfances en Asie du Sud], coord. jointly with V. Bouillier & G. Colas.
1998 International
seminar Doors
to Asia:
the multiple heritages of Vasco de Gama, Paris, coord.
jointly with S. Subrahmanyam
&
2000
French-German Workshop Changes
through Rituals, Changes in Rituals. The Dynamics of Socio-Religious
Constructions in South and East
Asia,
2001
International seminar The Politics of
Authenticity. The Case of Modern and Contemporary Visual
Arts in India,
Paris, coord. jointly with D.Vidal & T.Guha Thakurta.
2003 Indo-French
seminar Culture, Identity and
Development, Paris, coord. jointly with F.Landy &
Biswajit Das.
2003
International seminar Past as
the Present. A Discourse on South Asian Society, Paris,
coord. jointly with C.Servan-Schreiber&
Badri Narayan
2005 International
seminar Conflicts, Law, and Constitutionalism,
Paris, coord. jointly with Ranabir
Samaddar.
2005 Annual workshop of the CEIAS Images et religions en Asie du Sud, Paris, coord. jointly with M.-Cl. Mahias.
2010 International Workshop: 1st General Meeting of the Just-India Programme, Paris, with D.Berti.
2010 One-day seminars: Comparer dans l'espace et dans le temps pour penser l'homme en société, and Essai de prospective. L'environnement institutionnel de l'anthropologie et ses évolutions, LESC, Nanterre.
2010 One-day seminar ANR-"Just-India" Anthropologie des procédures judiciaires (Europe, Afrique, Asie du Sud), Centre A.G.Haudricourt, Villejuif, with D.Berti.
2011 Joint one-day seminar LESC-GECKO (Nanterre) Les pratiques de l'espace. Approches ethnologiques et géographiques,Nanterre, with Sophie Blanchy and Frédéric Landy.
2011 One- day seminar Anthropologies en partage?, LESC, Nanterre.
2011 International workshop (2 days) Law and Social Exclusion in India, Yale University, with D.Berti and K.Sivaramakrishnan.
2012 International workshop Religion and the Courts in South Asia, ANR « Just-India », Paris, 18-19 June. with Daniela Berti and Raphaël Voix.(some of the following courses
were taught in collaboration)
- National
Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO),
Paris (1987-2007) : Introduction
to South Indian history and culture; Religious traditions in India;
Introduction to Indian
society; Society, politics and religion
in India; participation
to the general course Introduction
to South-Asia civilization.
- University
Paris 7-Denis Diderot (1997-2004) : Social anthropology of India.
- University Paris 10-Nanterre
(1997-2007) : Introduction
to religious anthropology; Social anthropology of Indian society.
-International Institute for Educational Planning (UNESCO), Master programme "Advanced Training Programme in Educational Planning and Management" (2004-2007): Methodologies in qualitative studies.
- University
of Yale, Deparment of Anthropology
and Department of religious Studies: Popular Religion in India: Shifting Boundaries
and Practices of Power (2007 & 2008); Dealing with Misfortune in Contemporary India (2008).
2002-2005
Director of the South-Asia Programme of Collaboration in the Social
Sciences and the Humanities, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
(FMSH), Paris.
2006 Scientific Director in charge of the CNRS sector dedicated to Social Anthropology, Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Central Direction of CNRS.
2010-2013 Director of the Research Centre for Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative -LESC), Nanterre.
-redaction committee of Xoana. Images et sciences sociales (Xoana. Images and Social Sciences), 1997-2001.
-reviewing committee of the collection "Monde indien" (South Asia), CNRS Editions, 2004-2006
-redaction committee of Bulletin de l'Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient (2007-2013)
- director of publication Ateliers d'anthropologie (2010-2012), then member of its redaction committee.
-recruiting commission ("commissions de spécialistes"), section 20 : University Paris 10 (1998-2001); University Paris 7 (2004-2006).
- "comité national de la recherche scientifique", section 38 (2008-2011)
-scientific
committee for doctoral and post-doctoral scholarships at Musée
du Quai Branly (2006-2011).
-scientific
committee of the French Asian Network "Réseau Asie-IMASIE" (2006-2009).
-scientific committee for the French Institutes in Asia managed by the Foreign Ministry (2006-2015).