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• 10 déc 2017

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  “It doesn’t even hurt!” Mock battles and the aesthetics of violence in traditional festivals

  Revue « Ethnologie française »

  By using the phrase “mock battle”, we propose to examine a large set of contemporary practices which display ritualized competitions according to very specific modes. The issue would like to gather articles which, on different fields, analyze practices consisting in “pretending to fight” and which display violence in a figurative, aesthetic, metaphorical or euphemistic way.

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• 01 nov 2014

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Black or dark tourism?

  Le tourisme noir (dark tourism) intrigue. Ainsi baptisé par John Lennon et Malcolm Foley (1996), il est décrit comme « l’acte de voyager vers des sites qui sont associés à la mort, à la souffrance et au macabre » (Stone, 2006 : 146). Ce n’est que depuis la fin du XX^e siècle que des chercheurs et autres experts du tourisme se sont attardés à ce phénomène qui demeure, encore aujourd’hui, relativement peu étudié. Pourtant, il s’agit d’une pratique qui prend ses racines dans l’histoire et qui a connu, au cours des dernières décennies, un élargissement de l’offre et de la demande.

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• 15 déc 2012

  Taipei

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Bodily Cultivation & Cultural Learning

  8th International Symposium of CORPUS (International Group for the Cultural Study of the Body)

  Almost all cultures recognize as a means of achieving religious or spiritual goals, cultivating moral and emotional virtue, or transforming ideas into bodily practices. Some of the most common examples include fasting, meditation, vegetarianism, and qigong or taichi. Rather than focus on these obvious examples, conference attendees will examine culturally driven bodily practices such as proper ways to walk, sit, and gesture—all of which are often endowed with rich cultural meaning, information about cultural learning, and knowledge about the cultivation of values and merit. Bodily cultivation can also be analyzed as a channel for learning, manifesting, developing, or shaping cultural concepts and ideals.

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