New Titles 2009

Éditions de l’EHESS New titles 2009

Divins remèdes • Divine Remedies Dynamiques de l’erreur Médecine et religion en Asie du Sud The Dynamics of errors Medicine and Religion in South Asia Christiane Chauviré, Albert Ogien & Louis Quéré (eds.) Ines G. Županov & Caterina Guenzi (eds.) Unavoidable, human error often connotes This book aims to fill a gap by studying the negative value, yet it has a positive potential. connections between medicine and religion In envisaging error in the multiple contexts on the Indian sub-continent. Although there where it happens, this book puts forward a have been many studies on medicine and on new approach, counter to that of cognitive religion over the last two decades, the effort in psychology. Varied case studies examine the analysing and interpreting has rarely concer- use of error in science, solving practical pro- ned their interaction. With its large number blems in everyday life, establishing proof in of peoples and its impressive corpus of erudite court, medical diagnostics and political deci- traditions, India especially lends itself to such sions. The issue here is to put the thesis of its consideration. positive value to the test. . January 2009. Coll. “Purushartha”, 27 February 2009. Coll. « Raisons pratiques » ; 19 • 368 p. e 360 p. • ISBN 978-2-7132-2167-5 • 30 ISBN 978-2-7132-2169-9 • 26 e

Chronique d’une ascension sociale Chronicles of Upward Social Mobility Le courage de la vérité • The courage of Truth Exercice de la parenté chez de grands officiers xvi( e-xviie s.) Le gouvernement de soi et des autres II The exercise of kinship among some high officers (16th-17th) The governance of self and others II Cours au Collège de France, 1983-1984 Claire Chatelain Lecture at the College de France, 1983-1984 Claire Chatelain retraces the itinerary of each Michel Foucault of the actors in a rich and as yet unseen saga, In February and March 1984, Foucault gave his last analysing its collective mechanism. How does lectures at the College de France. He was to die in a family group build its economic power, its June of the same year. This last lecture carries on specific identity and its coherence from one and intensifies the analyses led the year before. The generation to the next? issue was to question the function of “truth telling” For the sake of contributing to the social his- in politics. By returning to the school of cynicism tory of elites in the Modern Times, the author of the Ancients, Foucault aims to consider the scan- has unveiled a varied ensemble of archives, dalous staging of truth in an offbeat, different, pro- vocative life. In this way he puts forward, for the which hold unexpected data. These docu- first time, a genealogy of the accursed artist, the ments give access to a true crisis of the family activist revolutionary and the philosophical hero. institution, with individuals gradually assuming greater importance. February 2009. Coll. “Hautes Études” (with January 2009. Coll. “En temps & lieux”, 3 • 436 p. Gallimard and Le Seuil) • 356 p. ISBN 978-2-7132-2164-4 • 49,50 e ISBN 978-2-02-065870-6 • 27 e (distribution Volumen/Le Seuil)

Fictions du pouvoir chinois À l’épreuve du sang contaminé Fictions of the Chinese Power The test of the contaminated blood Littérature, modernisme et démocratie au début du xxe siècle Pour une sociologie des affaires médicales Revolution, norms and public space at the time of modernism For a sociology of medical affairs Sebastian Veg Emmanuelle Fillion What are the links between fiction and Victims in revolt, public indignation, doctors power? With the 1911 revolution and the and politicians in the dock etc: the contamina- May 4th movement, the early 20th century ted-blood scandal was an affair of state. Never- in China is a privileged period to study the theless, the transfusional epidemic of HIV was links between literary modernity and demo- long confined to the micro-world of haemophi- cratic claims. This study also questions the lia. In order to understand how this tragedy turned into a major political crisis, E. Fillion place and status of fiction in the social field. goes back to the experiences of its players: the Confronting Chinese (Lu Xun, Lao She) and patients, their families, their association and European works (Segalen, Kafka, Brecht) their doctors. Neither plea nor accusation, this which question the legitimacy of new poli- approach puts forward an exhaustive sociologi- tical forms, Sebastian Veg stresses the inter- cal analysis of this scandal and sheds light on twining between fiction and the authorities and goes beyond the gap the transformations of the medical world. between “committed” literature and “pure” literature. March 2009. Coll. “En temps & lieux”; 4 • 328 p. February 2009. Coll. “En temps & lieux”, 2 • 384 p. + 4 p. hors ISBN 978-2-7132-2171-2 • 20 e texte • ISBN 978-2-7132-2165-1 • 25 e

Le travail à-côté • Work on the side Écologie sociale de l’oreille • A Social Ecology of Hearing Une ethnographie des perceptions • Enquêtes sur l’expérience musicale An ethnology of perceptions Inquiries on the musical experience Florence Weber Anthony Pecqueux & Olivier Roueff (eds.) What do workmen do in their free time? This This book represents a renewal in the present enquiry, which has become a classic for the eth- debates on the study of artistic practices. It is no nology of Western societies, was led in Montbard longer the study of a musical style or genre that (Côte d’Or, France) in the 1980s. For this new defines research, but the outlook, the sociological edition, Florence Weber returns to the keystone perspective. Eight musical experiences are studied of her work: socialised perception. The ethno- here. These include the representation of rap in graphic eye, the perceptions of human activity the media and public space, sociabilities in rave and the economic perception – the three facets of socialised perception – refer to social interactions, parties and the practice of jazz lovers. Led by the the place of men in manufacturing processes and best specialists in the each domain, these inquiries the very functioning of societies. In addition, F. on the field fill a gap in as much as there have Weber contributes to genre studies by highli- been very few empirical works in this domain. ghting the invisibility of male domestic activities. June 2009. Coll. “En temps & lieux”, 9 • ISBN 978-2-7132-2219-1 March 2009. Coll. “En temps & lieux”; 5. New, revised and augmented edition [1st publ. 1989] • 240 p. • ISBN 978-2-7132-2172-9 • 23 e € Reliques modernes • Modern Holy bodies Traditions et temporalités des images Philippe Boutry, Pierre-Antoine Fabre Traditions and Temporalities of Images & Dominique Julia (eds.) Giovanni Careri, François Lissarrague, Jean-Claude Schmitt & Carlo Severi (eds.) Images are the reflection of their time, of the life of their creator. They bear witness to technical and iconic traditions, place aged old civilisations onto the stage, and evoke the past, present and future. Behind these traces of time, what do images tell us? Is our own memory what is at stake? With these questions for a starting point, historians, anthropologists and art historians have analysed more than twenty-five centuries of artistic production in Europe, Africa, Asia and America. Their rich and varied approach enables the reader to (re)discover art masterpieces Starting in the time of Reformation, the cult of holy bodies became a source of as well as unknown jewels. 120 colour plates magnify these original analyses. conflicts. An object of violence and massive destruction as well as a theological March 2009. Coll. “L’histoire et ses representations”; 7 • 256 p. + 104 colour affirmation on the part of the Catholic Church faced with the heretics, it was plates • ISBN 978-2-7132-2163-7 • 45 e also a way to fill up with sacredness for all the believers who came to ask for help in adversity. Studied in the long term, all the facets of relics are examined La roue de la fortune • The Wheel of Fortune here – from their pertaining to a place to being used as political emblems; Le destin d’une famille d’usuriers lombards dans les Pays-Bas from being objects of people’s veneration to belonging to princely collections; à l’aube des Temps modernes from confessional and philosophical controversy to pilgrimage booklets. The destiny of a Lombard usurer family in the Netherlands at the Sept 2009. Coll. “En temps & lieux”, 7, 2 vol. dawn of Modern Times Vol. 1 : ISBN 978-2-7132-2174-3 • 28,50 e Myriam Greilsammer Vol. 2 : ISBN 978-2-7132-2188-0 • 29,50 e Who was Lowys Porquin and why did he decide to bequeath his Book of Memoirs and Spiritual Testa- ment to his children – a school textbook long adop- Compter et classer • Counting and Classifying ted by both the Catholics and Reformed? Myriam Histoire des recensements américains Greilsammer investigates the aim of this singular A history of American censuses autobiography – through what was left unsaid and Paul Schor what was embellished, it pertained to the social In retracing the evolutions of the categories used Paul Schor and religious integration strategies of the Lom- in American census, this book raises the ques- bard moneylenders. Fiction and reality, the hold of Compter etclasser tion of the political and social role and issues of sources over historians, and God and money are at Histoire des recensements américains demographic statistics. Far from being simple the root of this essay in micro-history. April 2009. Coll. “En temps & lieux”; 6 • 432 p. • ISBN 978-2-7132-2170-5 • 30 e mirrors of a society or an instrument of the government, censuses represent a place of com- plex negotiations between the State, the experts Le travail créateur • Creative Work and the people. The history of categories refers Une sociologie de l’art • A sociology of art & lieux temps En to that of a country whose identity is intimately Pierre-Michel Menger linked to a continuous interrogation on the com- éditions EHESS L’artiste qui s’engage dans un métier risqué est-il un position of its people. « fou rationnel » ? Qu’appelle-t-on talent, et même Nov 2009. Coll. “En temps & lieux”, 8 • ISBN 978-2-7132-2173-6 génie ? Depuis l’intimité de l’activité de l’artiste jusqu’à l’organisation publique de la production artistique, l’incertitude régit l’art. Incertitude dans la création, dans la réception d’une œuvre, dans les outils d’évaluation, dans la sélection… Sociologue spécialiste de la culture et du travail, Pierre-Michel Menger offre un tableau original et très documenté sur le travail créateur.May 2009. Coll. « Hautes Études » (with Gallimard and Le Seuil) ISBN 978-02-098682-3 • 30 e

De l’imagination historique La Part d’ombre de l’État de droit • The Dark Side On Historical Imagination of the State of Law. La question carcérale en France et en Nikolay Koposov République fédérale d’Allemagne depuis 1968. The prison issue in France and the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968 No project for the future that would clarify the De l’imagination historique Grégory SALLE Nikolay Koposov past… No new concepts that would shed light Les historiens savent qu’ils construisent leurs objets, mais ils ne s’arrêtent guère sur la façon dont ils les construisent. Comment pensent Prisons represent places of exception, denounced in the now-conventional les historiens ? Quels sont les mécanismes on history… Nowadays, it is said that historians cognitifs mobilisés dans la construction des objets concrets de la connaissance historique ? Qu’entendre par imagination historique ? feel that they are facing a void. Yet the analysis of expression “a lawless zone”. Yet it seems that there is a large consensus on Ce livre pose ces questions en partant d’un cas emblématique : le vif débat sur ordres et classes, qui a joué un rôle déterminant pour l’histoire De l’imagination historique l’imagination De Nikolay Koposov the virtues of the State of Law as a model for prison management. Grégory sociale française des années 1960. their thought shows that the words they use also En reprenant les positions des principaux protagonistes, l’auteur s’interroge d’abord sur l’histoire et le statut des catégories sociales, sur les formes et la portée des classifications, De l’imagination bear emptiness in themselves. Based on a study of Salles analyses this link between the prison and the representation of the puis, de proche en proche et selon une démarche de sémantique historique, il scrute la notion CAS FIGURE DE CAS FIGURE DE historique même de social et explore les formes contemporaines de l’imagination historique. Koposov Nikolay the logical structures of historical concepts, this State of Law, linking up political history and penal policies. The compared Nikolay Koposov est directeur de recherches au Collegium Hel- sinki, professeur d’histoire à l’Université de Saint-Pétersbourg et doyen-fondateur de l’Institut Smolny des arts libéraux et des study about the evolution of confinement in France and Germany provides sciences à Saint-Pétersbourg (1998-2009). Il est l’auteur d’ou- book investigates the conflict between significa- vrages, l’un sur la haute bureaucratie en France au xviie siècle (1990), un autre, Halte au massacre des chats ! Critique des sciences sociales (2005), tous les deux publiés en russe. tion and semantic vacuum. It reveals a field of a new, important contribution to contemporary studies on prisons. research that has hardly been explored, that of the October 2009. Coll. “En temps & lieux” ISBN 978-2-7132-2226-9 ÉDITIONS DE L’ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ISBN 978-2-7132-2220-7 ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES xx � mentality of historians. October 2009. Coll. “Cas de figure” • ISBN 978-2-7132-2220-7 Des liens et des transferts entre les générations • Of Links and Transfers between Generations Le sexe politique • Political Sex Genre et sexualité au miroir transatlantique André MASSON Genre and sexuality in the transatlantic mirror What are the main motivations behind the transmission of heritage Éric Fassin within families? What rights and duties vis-à-vis our successors should

Le Sexe politique Is sex political? No was the answer in France be conferred to the State? This book devoted to the economy of inter- Éric Fassin in the early 1990s, against the politicisation of generational links presents an enlightening overall view on the subject. Le sexe est-il politique ? Non, répondait-on en France au début des années 1990, contre la politisation sexual issues that was supposed to define America. It successively follows three mainstays: State, family and interactions des questions sexuelles censée définir l’Amérique. Oui, dit-on au contraire dans les années 2000 ; l’égalité des sexes et des sexualités ferait même partie de l’identité Yes is the answer in the years 2000. It is even said nationale. C’est ce renversement qui est analysé. between family and State. This discussion sheds light on a crucial issue Avec pour point de départ la comparaison États-Unis France, il est question dans cet ouvrage de l’avortement, des violences envers politique Sexe Le Éric Fassin les femmes, d’amour hétérosexuel et de mariage that equality of sexes and sexualities pertain to the regarding the future perspectives of our welfare state and the reform paths homosexuel, de l’articulation entre genre et sexualité. Ce recueil d’articles mis en perspectives offre une synthèse Le Sexe politique riche des travaux d’Éric Fassin. French national identity. It is this reversal which to be taken. Should the policies to be implemented attempt to reinforce

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CAS FIGURE DE CAS FIGURE DE Genre et sexualité au miroir transatlantique is analysed here. Starting from the comparison the link between generations in one way or another? Or on the contrary, between the USA and France, this book deals should they favour other “liberal” or “social democratic” principles, consi- with abortion, violence towards women, hetero- dering the possible changes in the post-war generation pact? sexual love and homosexual marriage, as well as ÉDITIONS DE L’ÉCOLE DES HAUTES December 2009 • Coll. « En temps & lieux » ISBN 978-2-7132-2223-8 ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES xx � the links between genre and sexuality. A collection of articles put into perspective, this book provides a rich synthesis Devenir métropolitain • To become a French of Eric Fassin’s works. Mainlander October 2009. Coll. “Cas de figure” • ISBN 978-2-7132-2223-8 Yann SCIOLDO-ZÜRCHER From the Independence War until today, this book retraces the stages of La tentation du corps dans les sciences sociales fran- the transformation of the French colonials born in Algeria into French çaises • The Body Studied in French Social Sciences Mainlanders. The author has succeeded in the challenge of interpreting Dominique Memmi, Dominique Guillo & Olivier Martin (eds.) the State policy towards repatriates as the first policy for the immediate Long left out or undervalued by social sciences, La Tentation du corps integration of migrants, with all the limits that go along with it. There Sous la direction de Dominique Memmi Dominique Guillo et Olivier Martin the human body has gradually been conferred new is another remarkable point in this as-yet-unpublished study: besides the

Les sciences sociales françaises ont longtemps délaissé ou dévalué le corps et ont notamment importance, not only as an object of study but combattu le réductionnisme biologique. large number of public archives examined, it features both the voices of Depuis quatre décennies un changement profond s’est amorcé. L’ouvrage entend saisir la nature de cette inflexion, dans des oeuvres also as an instrument of analysis. Works of capi- aux contenus parfois contrastés (Bourdieu sous la direction de the repatriated (with a corpus of over 200 letters and personal diaries) et Foucault, par exemple) et dans des disciplines aux liens parfois très lâches (anthropologie D. Memmi et droit). Faut-il voir dans cette inflexion corps du Tentation La D. Guillo et O. Martin tal importance, in such disciplines as law, history, un retour du biologisme ? Le corps étant and the representations of Algeria’s French colonists (with a corpus of un thème très investi idéologiquement les auteurs nous livrent ici une étude éclairante, à la fois théorique et concrète (utilisation La Tentation du corps anthropology and sociology, as well as genre stu- du terme dans le droit, étude de l’utilisation television shows). Lastly, Yann Sioldo-Zürcher places this history of the du thème dans l’édition). D. Memmi, dans les sciences sociales CAS FIGURE DE CAS FIGURE DE Xxxxxxx. dies bear witness to this renewal. This book aims to

D. Guillo et O. Martin D. Guillo et O. repatriates within the more general history of migrants, comparing them grasp the nature of this reorientation. Is it the sign with other groups and thus enabling us to put things into perspective and of a return of biologism? Is there a unitary way that to assess the singular destiny of the pieds-noirs from Algeria. would be characteristic of French social sciences? ÉDITIONS DE L’ÉCOLE DES HAUTES December 2009 • Coll. « En temps & lieux » ISBN 978-2-7132-2224-5 ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES xx � October 2009. Coll. “Cas de figure” • ISBN 978-2-7132-2224-5 Hygiénisme industriel en France 1860-1914 • Hygien Défis contemporains de la parenté in French Industries, 1860-1914 The Contemporary Challenges of Kinship Caroline MORICEAU 2010. Collection “En temps & lieux” Enric Porqueres i Gené (ed.) Peines de guerre, la justice pénale internationale et Défis contemporains The friction between socially-constructed and de la parenté l’ex-Yougoslavie – War Penalties - International Penal Sous la direction de resulting-from-procreation kinship triggers intense Enric Porqueres i Gené Justice and Ex-Yugoslavia Pourquoi la notion de parenté que l’on croyait aussi intangible qu’intemporelle est-elle debates. Is there universal knowledge on the matter aujourd’hui soumise aux plus profonds bouleversements ? Quels changements ont Elisabeth DELPLA & Magali BESSONE affecté la parenté ces dernières décennies ? Les auteurs, issus d’horizons géographiques of reproductive biology that could be shared by all et disciplinaires variés, confrontent positions et analyses autour de trois thématiques : les cadres sous la direction de et enjeux juridiques des nouvelles parentés, parenté la de contemporains Défis Enric Porqueres i Gené 2010. Collection “En temps & lieux” la parenté à l’âge des biotechnologies et human cultures? Should one assume that the refe- des adoptions internationales, les changements de perception du corps et de la personne. Ce livre nous entraîne au cœur des controverses Défis contemporains soulevées par les nouvelles techniques rence to reproduction is necessarily central in the de procréation (familles mono- et homo- parentales, fécondation in vitro, dons de gamètes, CAS FIGURE DE CAS FIGURE DE de la parenté etc.). Il témoigne de l’évolution profonde L’engagement ethnographique – The Ethnographic de la parenté, tant au niveau des savoirs et de sous la direction organisation of kinship systems? These examples des techniques que des représentations et des valeurs communes. La filiation ne va plus de soi… i Gené Enric Porqueres Commitment La diversité et la profondeur de l’étude, marquée par une approche anthropologique, rendent cet of questions that are still raised today make up ouvrage incontournable pour la compréhension des nouveaux défis 2010. Collection “En temps & lieux” de la parenté, en pleine (r-)évolution. the backdrop of this collective work. Coming Daniel CEFAÏ (eds) Anthropologue spécialiste des relations entre modernité et parenté, Enric Porqueres i Gené est maître de conférences à l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). de la parenté. from various traditions and disciplines, its authors ÉDITIONS DE L’ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ISBN 978-2-7132-2221-4 ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES xx � confront their positions. The plurality of approaches Opium à Canton, 1912-1937 – Opium in Canton, 1912 - 1937 makes this a major book in the study of kinship. Xavier PAULES October 2009. Coll. “Cas de figure” • ISBN 978-2-7132-2221-4 2010. Collection “En temps & lieux” K o u m e n A. HAmpAte BA et G. Dieterlen A. HAmpAte BA et G. Dieterlen « Koumen » The Initiatory Tale of Fulani Shepherds Koumen est le récit initiatique des pasteurs peul. Jamais écrit, ni même enre- K o u m e n gistré, les conditions rituelles étant extrêmement strictes, il fut pour la pre- mière fois publié en 1961 par Hampate Ba et Germaine Dieterlen. A. Hampate Ba et G. Dieterlen Aucune autre version de ce texte, épuisé depuis des années n’existe. en réim- primant ce récit, les Éditions de l’eHeSS et l’iFAn permettent aux étudiants K o u m e n et lecteurs africains, et plus particulièrement aux peul du Sénégal, d’avoir à nouveau accès à un texte fondamental dans l’acquisition des connaissances Texte initiatique de leur tradition. Koumen is the Fulani shepherds’ initiation text. Due to very strict ritual conditions, it was never written, let alone le texte de Koumen relate l’initiation du premier silatigi, Silé Sadio ou Soulé, des Pasteurs Peul diminutif de Souleyman c’est-à-dire de Salomon. il présente l’initiation i e t e r l e n d comme un enseignement progressif de la structure des éléments, de l’espace, recorded, until Hampate Ba and Germaine Dieterlen published it in 1961. There is no du temps dont l’essence doit pénétrer le postulant. C’est aussi une succession G. d’épreuves – le postulant doit pénétrer successivement dans douze clairières –, symboles de la lutte qu’il doit entreprendre sur lui-même avec l’aide de Dieu, et et de Koumen, son auxiliaire-berger, pour progresser dans la connaissance. other version of this text, which has been out of print for years. Koumen relates the initation of the first ‘solatgi’, Silé Sadio or Soulé — short for Souleyman, i.e. Salomon. It pre- a m p a t e B a

h sents initiation as the progressive teachings on the structure of elements, space and time, . a whose essence must pervade the postulant. It is also a succession of trials symbolising the battle to be undertaken with oneself, with the help of God and the Koumen, one’s auxiliary shepherd, in order to advance in knowledge. Cahiers de l’homme iSBn Sénégal : Ethnologie - Géographie - Linguistique € iSBn France : 978-2-7132-2231-3 December 2009 • Collection “Cahiers de l’homme” • ISBN 978-2-7132-2231-3 • 10

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