UE69 - Healing Matters. The Anthropology of Hybrid and "Traditional" Ritual Mediations in postcolonial contexts


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  • 54 bd Raspail
    54 bd Raspail 75006 Paris
    annuel / mensuel (4e), mardi 16:00-18:00
    du 25 novembre 2025 au 16 juin 2026
    Nombre de séances : 8


Description


Dernière modification : 28 avr. 2025 19:30:29

Type d'UE
Séminaires collectifs de recherche
Disciplines
Anthropologie sociale, ethnographie et ethnologie
Page web
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Langues
anglais
L’enseignement est uniquement dispensé dans cette langue.
Mots-clés
Anthropologie culturelle Fait religieux Post-coloniales (études)
Aires culturelles
Afrique Europe centrale et orientale
Intervenant·e·s

This monthly webinar aims to discuss contemporary healing practices, in which new forms of ritualization and ritual expertise intersect with technologized mediations and references to imagined and creatively reinterpreted traditions. In order to define the scope of healing, we draw on research concerning the techniques and concepts of the body, the environment, new infrastructures, and power dynamics. We aim to compare phenomena such as healing practices associated with New Age and alternative spiritualities but also with new Christian movements like Pentecostalism, and as well as practices that straddle the boundaries of biomedicine and ritualization or those presented by the specialists which animate them as ancestral, which proliferate in various parts of the globe.

We argue that many common features of these practices - despite their various labels and interpretations - are neither coincidental nor rooted in their archetypal nature. Instead, they are closely tied to the circulation of concepts, objects, subjects and practices within a postcolonial, globally integrated world and its center-periphery dynamics.

Le programme détaillé n'est pas disponible.


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Renseignements


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Informations pratiques

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Direction de travaux des étudiants

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Réception des candidats

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Pré-requis

M1

Dernière modification : 28 avr. 2025 19:30:29

Type d'UE
Séminaires collectifs de recherche
Disciplines
Anthropologie sociale, ethnographie et ethnologie
Page web
-
Langues
anglais
L’enseignement est uniquement dispensé dans cette langue.
Mots-clés
Anthropologie culturelle Fait religieux Post-coloniales (études)
Aires culturelles
Afrique Europe centrale et orientale
Intervenant·e·s

This monthly webinar aims to discuss contemporary healing practices, in which new forms of ritualization and ritual expertise intersect with technologized mediations and references to imagined and creatively reinterpreted traditions. In order to define the scope of healing, we draw on research concerning the techniques and concepts of the body, the environment, new infrastructures, and power dynamics. We aim to compare phenomena such as healing practices associated with New Age and alternative spiritualities but also with new Christian movements like Pentecostalism, and as well as practices that straddle the boundaries of biomedicine and ritualization or those presented by the specialists which animate them as ancestral, which proliferate in various parts of the globe.

We argue that many common features of these practices - despite their various labels and interpretations - are neither coincidental nor rooted in their archetypal nature. Instead, they are closely tied to the circulation of concepts, objects, subjects and practices within a postcolonial, globally integrated world and its center-periphery dynamics.

Le programme détaillé n'est pas disponible.

Cette UE n'est rattachée à aucune formation de master.

Contacts additionnels
-
Informations pratiques

mode hybride

Direction de travaux des étudiants

sur rdv

Réception des candidats

sur rdv

Pré-requis

M1

  • 54 bd Raspail
    54 bd Raspail 75006 Paris
    annuel / mensuel (4e), mardi 16:00-18:00
    du 25 novembre 2025 au 16 juin 2026
    Nombre de séances : 8