The latest I-DEA talks at LaCAS: from Yolngu aborigines to Arab law

18 July 2024
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Also worth discovering: the reburial of victims of Guatemala's armed conflict.
Glen Namundja, artiste aborigène de la Terre d'Arnhem
Glen Namundja, artiste aborigène de la Terre d'Arnhem © Mark Roy‎
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The interviews of the I-DEA program (Illustration and Documentation of Areal Studies) present themes studied by a researcher in areal studies, approached from different angles: problems, fields, methodologies, issues. Every two months, discover the latest interviews, available on HAL and the LaCAS platform.

Latest I-DEA talks

Jessica De Largy Healy (CNRS)
Jessica De Largy Healy (CNRS) © LaCAS 2024‎
Anthropology of restitution in Yolngu aboriginal communities, interview with Jessica De Largy Healy (CNRS)

Jessica De Largy Healy, anthropologist at the CNRS, looks back on her research career between France and Australia, and on her long-term fieldwork in Yolngu aboriginal country in northeastern Arnhem Land. Her work focuses on the digitization of indigenous knowledge and the processes involved in returning museum collections to communities. View

Clara Duterme (Université de Strasbourg)
Clara Duterme (Université de Strasbourg) © LaCAS 2024‎
Processes of peace: exhumation and care of human remains, interview with Clara Duterme (University of Strasbourg)

Clara Duterme, senior lecturer in social anthropology, is interested in the exhumations and reburials of victims of armed conflict in Guatemala. In this interview, she looks back at the ways in which these human remains are handled, their political stakes and the processes of ritual innovation to produce new funerary practices for the exhumed dead. View

Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron (IRD)
Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron (IRD) © LaCAS 2024‎
Studying and teaching the law of Arab countries, interview with Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron (IRD)

Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron, director of research at the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), is a specialist in the law of Arab countries. In this interview, she discusses her work on the legal and political transformations these countries have undergone since the emergence of nation-states and the process of codifying norms in the 19th century. View