Institutional affiliations
CNRS-MNHN
BATTESTI Vincent
Affiliated entity
UMR 7206 - Ethnoécologie : savoirs, pratiques, pouvoirs (Espp)
Interdisciplinary research theme
- Ethnoecology of the Sahara and Arabia oases - Anthropology of sensory perceptions - Ethnography of urban soundscapes - Historical ethnoecology of the Orezza valley, Castagniccia (Corsica)
Speciality
Ethnoecology
Contact
Website(s)
Phone
+33 (0)1.43.05.72.63
Responsibilities in the research group
- Co-Head of the Ethnoecology team (Ethnoécologie: savoirs, pratiques, pourvoirs: Espp)
- Member of the Laboratory Council.
Responsibilities outside the research group
- Associate Editor of the journal Revue d'ethnoécologie
- Co-head of the Working-Group Insularities: fragmentation and connectivity, a social and biological perspective, BioDivMex, MISTRALS metaprogram.
- Resident researcher at the Space Observatory — Observatoire de l'espace — (CNES, Centre national d'études spatiales)
Collection(s)
vbat: personal research collection, housed at the Musée de l'Homme, in the ethnobiology research collections.
An important part of this vbat research collection is related to the oasis of the oasis of Siwa in Egypt.
Teaching
Enseignement en formation doctorale du MNHN "Évolution, Patrimoine Naturel et Sociétés" ED 227
- Co-responsable d'un Master 2 : Parcours "Toxiques, Microorganismes et Molécules de Communication dans les Ecosystèmes" (depuis 2009), spécialité UDV (coresponsabilité partagée avec I. Florent, MC MNHN et A. Carré-Mlouka, MC MNHN).
- Co-responsable du Master 1 (coresponsabilité partagée avec I. Florent, MC MNHN et A. Carré-Mlouka, MC MNHN).
- Responsable d'Unités d'Enseignement du parcours "Toxiques, Microorganismes et Molécules de Communication dans les Ecosystèmes" : UDV 4/6, UDV 4, UDV6, UDV28
- Master recherche, spécialité UDV, Parcours "Toxines et Ecosystèmes" (depuis 2005)
- DEA "Interactions Toxiques dans les écosystèmes et Biotechnologies liées aux toxines" (1997-2004)
- Module de cours dans l'Ecole Doctorale 227 du MNHN "Science de la Nature et de l'Homme" (1997-2003)
Bibliography and writings in progress
Full references (and open access download link) on my website http://publication.vbat.org.
Bibliography / Open Archive Publications:
http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/aut...
See the latest news on current transactions: Work in Progress
Research Collection
vbat collection: An important part of my personal research collection is devoted to an oasis: the Siwa Oasis in Egypt.
Some objects are displayed on a page of my website:
Projects
New Projects:
- In 2018 began a research project (with) in Corsica on the Orezza Valley in Castagniccia.
It consists of several phases. The first one in progress is this one:
Historical demography and land strategies in the Orezza Valley in Castagniccia, Corsica
Our research on the evolution of the population and the use of its territory through the land issues of Castagniccia (late 18th century to today) combines an approach of historical demography and a history of land in Castagniccia. The study concerns the small Castagniccia, i. e. the heart of this region, the Orezza valley and, for the most systematic surveys, the municipality of Nocario. The data are a combination of oral and archival sources.
co-leading: Vincent Battesti & François Ireton (CNRS)
- In 2019, a double project began in Saudi Arabia in the oasis of al-'Ulā.
The oasis of al-'Ulā, capital of the governorate of the same name, is part of the province of Madīna, located in northwest Saudi Arabia. Al-'Ulā, the ancient city of Dādān in the wadi al-Qura, was the capital of the Lihyan empire on the incense road. It is located about twenty kilometers from Madāʾin Ṣāliḥ which hosts the Nabataean site al-Ḥijr classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Al-'Ulā, which is now a modern urban area of about 40,000 inhabitants in a narrow valley, carved out of the sandstone (and basalt) of the plateau, still has its former fortified urban centre (al-Dīra) with hundreds of mud brick and stone houses in an upper part of the valley to protect itself from flooding.
Two projects :
Anthropological survey of al-‘Ulā community and its oasis system
leading: Vincent Battesti
Ethnographic, genetic, and morphometric analyses of the date palm agrobiodiversity in al-‘Ulā oasis.
co-leading: Vincent Battesti & Muriel Gros-Balthazard (NYU-AD, New York University in Abu Dhabi).
- In 2019, I became a researcher in residence "in zero gravity" at the CNES (Centre national d'études spatiales) Space Observatory.
Pour une anthropologie extraterrestre : sensorialités et cosmos
(Extraterrestrial anthropology: sensorialities and cosmos)
The ambition here is to propose an "extraterrestrial anthropology", or rather, an anthropology of human beings outside their terrestrial context. I propose a first angle and a methodology: a work on the sensorialities and the relationship to the cosmos.
If the question of space is well delineated in anthropology, because it has only focused on the ordinary experience of human beings until now, it has always been a two-dimensional space, with feet on the ground. Now that Man is emancipating himself from this natural of gravity, it is perhaps time to found a new anthropology of space.
The methodological angle is both original and self-contained: the sensory. Our sensory equipment is the only way to acquire information about our environment and to interact with it. I will mobilize two aspects of my previous research, on the one hand my experience of ecologically constrained environments for humankind such as deserts, and on the other hand my experience of an anthropology of sensory perceptions.
Research fields
North Africa (Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco)
Middle East (Egypt, Yemen, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, etc.)
Corsica (France)
Publications
2022
- April 2022 — Nec pluribus impar : sensoriel idiosyncrasique d’une anthropologie extraterrestre..,
2020
- December 2020 — « Ethnographies Sounded on What? Methodologies, Sounds, and Experiences in Cairo » in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies. P. 755-778.,
- November 2020 — Les oasis méditerranéennes. Sur le site de l’INSU (Institut national des sciences de l’Univers,CNRS), Les oasis méditerranéennes, 5 nov. 2020 : dans le cadre duprogramme Mistrals/ BioDivMex, Working-Group 2 | Insularités.,
- September 2020 — « Restaurants » in Abécédaire de la ville au Maghreb et au Moyen-Orient. P. 319-321.,
- September 2020 — « Fêtes & célébrations » in Abécédaire de la ville au Maghreb et au Moyen-Orient. P. 145-146.,
- July 2020 — Towards a Sonic Ecology off Urban Life: Ethnography of Sound Perception in Cairo. Senses and Society. Vol. 15, n° 2, p. 170-191.,
- 2020 — Integration of Ethnobotany And Population Genetics Uncovers The Agrobiodiversity of Date Palms of Siwa Oasis (Egypt) And Their Importance To The Evolutionary History of The Species. Evolutionary Applications.,ISSN:1752-4571
2019
- October 2019 — « Dattes » in Je mange donc je suis. Petit dictionnaire curieux de l’alimentation. P. 75-76. Catalogue d’exposition.,ISBN:978-2-85653-892-0
- August 2019 — Entre controverses environnementales et projets d’aménagement : le paysage à l’épreuve des sens. VertigO : La Revue Électronique en Sciences de l'Environnement. Vol. 18, n° 3.,
- August 2019 — Entre controverses environnementales et projets d’aménagement : le paysage à l’épreuve des sens. Vol. 18, n° 3, dir. VertigO.,