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In Morocco, like elsewhere, the transmission of knowledge (‘ilm) in Islam is a major element in understanding this religion. It contributes to the elaboration of doctrines, standards, and “tradition”. This resulted, therefore, in the introduction of competing orthodoxies in the confined space of mad

The objective of this Franco-Spanish project is to write the history of administrative practices in the region of the Pyrenees in the light of the royal deeds signed by the kings and queens of Navarre between 1484 (accession of the Albret family to the throne of Navarre) and 1594 (accession of Henri

VINICULTURE aims to integrate innovative methods in archeosciences to identify the characteristics and the diversity of grapevines and wines produced in France, since the origins of viticulture to the Middle Ages. Wine plays a major social and symbolic role since Protohistory. It is a prized excha

The aim of this project is to describe and compare the construction of mechanical knowledge in indigenous societies of the Atacama Plateau and the Gran Chaco. We will approach the subject making four preliminary assumptions: (1) in these strongly asymmetrical social contexts, the mechanics knowledge

BROGLASEA’s aim was to provide a critical prehistoric case study for the complex cultural transmissions by which a major region can have its endogenous socio-economic and political characteristics transformed by the imitation, adaptation and adoption of exogenous practices. The principal vectors of

PIND is the first research project dedicated to France’s punk scene from 1976 to today. PIND, an emphatically cross-disciplinary project, aims to take up a threefold challenge : that of being an object of study which is illegitimate (in French society and academia), vulnerable (due to the urgent nat

The project OLD aims at developing a local and regional scale approach of the cultural and environmental dynamics for the 2.8 to 1.8 million years (Ma) time period in eastern Africa, which has seen the emergence and early developments of the Oldowan culture. This period is crucial for our understand

Nowadays researchers have to encourage the development of scientific and technical culture, thus promoting an interdisciplinary and comparative reflection on the interrelations between science and society. The ANR project “BDL1795-1932 works in this perspective; starting from the study of an institu

The criminal innovations initiated by the Nuremberg trial in 1945-1946 have been the subject of numerous studies both in the field of international law and in the history of the Second World War and the Holocaust. By widening the scope to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia, and t

The project OASIWAT aims to understand the social and environmental factors that have contributed to the development, mutation and durability of oases in Southeast Arabia since the 3rd mil. BC until today. Oases are precious man-made constructions, intensively cultivated and irrigated, that have evo

1. Building a reference 500,000 words oral corpus (the Reference Naija Corpus, RNC), collected in 11 different points of survey in the country, with a deeply annotated and manually checked sub-section of 100,000 words (the Naija prosodic and syntactic Treebank, GTB). 2. Comparing the RNC with the

IMperfective MOdalities in CAucasian Languages focuses on linguistic typology and the documentation of understudied languages of the Caucasus. It consists of two complementary components: 1) collection, scientific editing and online publishing of narrative corpora of the oral tradition for ten lan

The age of the first manifestations of Art in South Africa, as well as the chronology of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) lithic industries to which they are associated, are hotly debated. This is due to a lack of consensus about the available dating results obtained these last years by the application of

Condorcet studies have developed markedly over the past two decades, following the bicentenaries of the French Revolution and of the death of Condorcet in 1794. This progress in research has brought to light previously unknown letters and unpublished essays, notably on such subjects as political ari

This project focuses on the practice of "string-figure making" which consists in carrying out a succession of operations using the fingers, to obtain a figure from a loop of string. Known in numerous societies with an oral tradition (notably in Oceania and the Americas), and often identified as a re