David JABIN
My main scientific interests are indigenous slavery in Amazonia, funerary practices and ethnobotany. I received my PhD in Social anthropology from the University of Paris Nanterre in December 2016 with a dissertation about Slavery among the Yuqui of the Bolivian Lowlands. I have been conducting fieldwork in Panama (2002), in French Guyana (2003) and, since 2004, in Bolivia.
In 2015-2016 I was part the ANR Kinsources (kinship and computation) in the Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale of the Collège de France. As a postdoctoral fellow in the Musée du quai Branly (2017-2018), I worked on funerary rites and mainly the use of bones for therapeutic and necromantic purposes and came back to the Yuqui. I am currently post-doctoral researcher of an Ethnomathematic project (EtkNOS) in the Paris Diderot University and beginning a new fieldwork in the paraguayan Chaco in two neighboring nivakle and enlhet villages.
In 2015-2016 I was part the ANR Kinsources (kinship and computation) in the Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale of the Collège de France. As a postdoctoral fellow in the Musée du quai Branly (2017-2018), I worked on funerary rites and mainly the use of bones for therapeutic and necromantic purposes and came back to the Yuqui. I am currently post-doctoral researcher of an Ethnomathematic project (EtkNOS) in the Paris Diderot University and beginning a new fieldwork in the paraguayan Chaco in two neighboring nivakle and enlhet villages.
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Since the beginning of the 20th century, a major effort has been made to develop a method of recording and comparing the numerous string games practiced in various parts of the world. Originally, within the framework of the diffusionist paradigm, the aim was to look for similarities, as clues to technical borrowings that could help to understand contacts between human groups. Based on fieldwork carried out in the central Paraguayan Chaco, where indigenous people live in agricultural settlements established by the Mennonites to implement intensive agriculture, the author compares the string figure making of Nivacle and Enlhet women in two neighboring communities. The aim is to understand the meaning of the technical and graphic differences observed in these two communities, and then, in contrast to the diffusionist hypothesis, to examine the way in which string figure making, like language or handicrafts, participates in the processes of ethnic affiliation.
A very synthetic paper, published in a collective book, that summarizes very quickly my thesis work on Yuqui slavery.
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Journée d’étude organisée en partenariat entre les projets Fabriq’Am et EtnoMat. Organisateurs : Mònica Martinez Mauri (EtnoMat) et Cédric Yvinec (Fabriq’Am).
Since the beginning of the 20th century, a major effort has been made to develop a method of recording and comparing the numerous string games practiced in various parts of the world. Originally, within the framework of the diffusionist paradigm, the aim was to look for similarities, as clues to technical borrowings that could help to understand contacts between human groups. Based on fieldwork carried out in the central Paraguayan Chaco, where indigenous people live in agricultural settlements established by the Mennonites to implement intensive agriculture, the author compares the string figure making of Nivacle and Enlhet women in two neighboring communities. The aim is to understand the meaning of the technical and graphic differences observed in these two communities, and then, in contrast to the diffusionist hypothesis, to examine the way in which string figure making, like language or handicrafts, participates in the processes of ethnic affiliation.
A very synthetic paper, published in a collective book, that summarizes very quickly my thesis work on Yuqui slavery.
Journée d’étude organisée en partenariat entre les projets Fabriq’Am et EtnoMat. Organisateurs : Mònica Martinez Mauri (EtnoMat) et Cédric Yvinec (Fabriq’Am).