These lectures on migration question the interpretative categories of this phenomenon, focusing on otherness. The following themes will be gone into in some depth: migrant culture, racialisation, integration and assimilation. The teaching method will include looking at these from a gender perspective.

You are strongly advised to attend the classes “Anthropology II: texts and documents” alongside this lecture course.

Taught by Adelina Miranda

These classes question the anthropological concepts of culture and identity by looking at humans on the move. The classes deepen our understanding of social relationships by studying the place that different cultures give to migrants and foreigners, in people’s minds as well as in space. A historical, dynamic and relational approach to migration will be used.

Taught by Adelina Miranda

Ethnography is the method on which anthropology is based. It is the famous “fieldwork” during which the researcher is immersed for a length of time in the daily life of a specific population in order to gather research data. Through this lecture course, students will familiarize themselves with this method, the steps it follows, its principles and its tools.

If you choose these lectures, you must also attend the accompanying classes “Anthropology IV: fieldwork”.

Taught by Armelle Jacquemot

The visual anthropology course will put the emphasis on the use of fixed and moving images in ethnographic studies, focusing on the point of images as a tool of investigation and transmission. It will also cover the methodological and ethical questions that the use of a camera or video camera always brings up during fieldwork.

If you choose these lectures, you must also attend the accompanying classes “Anthropology IV: fieldwork”.

Taught by Armelle Jacquemot

These classes complete the training on anthropology at an undergraduate level by allowing students to benefit from both their theoretical knowledge and their methodological know-how in order to achieve an ethnological description. Individually or in pairs (according to student numbers), the students will have to carry out an ethnographic observation. They will report on their progress regularly in methodological apprenticeship workshops (entering the fieldwork, difficulties once on the field, data gathering, writing up ethnographic results, etc.)

If you choose these classes, you must also go to the lectures on “Ethnography” and/or “Introduction to Visual Anthropology”.

Taught by Armelle Jacquemot

This course helps graduate students to read and thoroughly understand the scientific articles in English that they are using for their research dissertation. One of the aims of this workshop is to acquire the English vocabulary specific to anthropology and linked to the subject of their own dissertation, so that they are then able to go on to do further reading.

Taught by Alexis Avdeeff

This teaching, in workshop form, brings students to sharply question the notion of material culture and take an interest in how museums treat so-called ethnographic objects. The workshop will end with an educational trip to an ethnographic or eco- museum, during which the students will put into practice what they have learned in class.

Taught by Alexis Avdeeff

Constructing the Past: Traditions, Transmissions and Reinventions

Anthropology of Music

Filming in the field

How can one get across what one intends to using sounds and images? What movie-making strategy should one choose to use? At each major stage in the making of a film, the film-maker needs to take into account a multitude of constraints and opportunities and make the choices which seem most opportune for his or her purpose and intentions. At each of these stages, we will examine the macro-and micro-choices of filmmaking through which the “ethnographicity“ of a documentary film manifests itself. It is actually all about setting up a clearly descriptive and emic point of view.

You are strongly advised to choose this class if you choose the course “Filming in the field.”.

Taught by Armelle Jacquemot

The anthropology of India has made a significant contribution to anthropology in general, thanks to the multiplicity of its approaches and the major debates which have shaped it. This lecture course thus presents certain fundamental aspects of present-day Indian society: the social organisation into casts, the practice (theoretically forbidden) of untouchability, Hindu diversity, its vitality today, etc. Each session will be the opportunity to work around a film linked with the themes dealt with during that class.

Taught by Alexis Avdeeff

Regional Ethnologies: Brazilian world

Even though the anthropology in and of Brazil is well known for its studies on Native American populations and Afro-Brazilian religions, it is not limited to these great traditions of study. It includes many other fields, in particular urban anthropology and environmental anthropology from which the ethnographic works of French and Brazilian researchers which this course is on are derived.

Taught by Armelle Jacquemot

Regional Ethnologies: Asian world

Regional Ethnologies: Mediterranean world

History and Anthropology