Alors vint la nuit… Terrains, méthodes, perspectives

Over the past two decades, the seminar “Anthropology of Night” at the Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative (Paris Nanterre University) has been setting itself the task of establishing night as a field of research in its own right, supported by numerous ethnographies on sites near an...

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Published in:Ateliers d'anthropologie
Main Authors: Becquelin, Aurore Monod, Galinier, Jacques
Other Authors: Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative (LESC), Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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spelling ftuparislumieres:oai:HAL:halshs-04356821v1 2024-02-11T10:01:45+01:00 Alors vint la nuit… Terrains, méthodes, perspectives Becquelin, Aurore Monod Galinier, Jacques Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative (LESC) Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2020 https://shs.hal.science/halshs-04356821 https://doi.org/10.4000/ateliers.13380 fr fre HAL CCSD Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative - Université Paris Nanterre info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.4000/ateliers.13380 halshs-04356821 https://shs.hal.science/halshs-04356821 doi:10.4000/ateliers.13380 ISSN: 2117-3869 EISSN: 2117-3869 Ateliers d'anthropologie https://shs.hal.science/halshs-04356821 Ateliers d'anthropologie, 48, 2020, ⟨10.4000/ateliers.13380⟩ [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/other Special issue 2020 ftuparislumieres https://doi.org/10.4000/ateliers.13380 2024-01-23T23:45:04Z Over the past two decades, the seminar “Anthropology of Night” at the Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative (Paris Nanterre University) has been setting itself the task of establishing night as a field of research in its own right, supported by numerous ethnographies on sites near and far, and approached in a multidisciplinary and comparative way at the scale of the social sciences. This issue of Ateliers d’anthropologie brings together a few recent contributions by researchers who were asked to examine and analyse the nights on their field work site: sites as distant as the Canadian Arctic and Mesoamerica, or nearby territories that provide material for historical research and for the sociology of contemporary life. But how is one to compare Inuit thought that weaves continuity between day and night, dark and light; the nocturnal life of women in a prison world; Mesoamerican nights populated by threatening entities; nights written with glyphs, and works staged in 17th-century theatres; starry skies revealed to their fervent enthusiasts while hidden from urbanites overexposed to light pollution?The concept of nocturnity, used by historians of night, is a tool that enables us to analyse both the emic boundaries of night and day, and also all of the elements of night that penetrate diurnal mental life. The transition from a diurnal imagination towards a nocturnal world, “when night comes”, and vice versa, involves a gradual transformation of ontologies. This raises numerous questions about the notion of boundary: what is the nature of these status shifts by beings and objects that, depending on temporal and cultural context, may constitute phenomena of either connection and continuity, or change and rupture? How should this ethnography of “transition” be analysed—sometimes in terms of an opposition between complementary worlds breaking away from one another, sometimes marking a continuity through an explicit porosity, or even favouring ritually constructed intermediate space-times? Based on beliefs ... Other/Unknown Material Arctic inuit Université Paris Lumières: HAL Arctic Ateliers d'anthropologie 48
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description Over the past two decades, the seminar “Anthropology of Night” at the Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative (Paris Nanterre University) has been setting itself the task of establishing night as a field of research in its own right, supported by numerous ethnographies on sites near and far, and approached in a multidisciplinary and comparative way at the scale of the social sciences. This issue of Ateliers d’anthropologie brings together a few recent contributions by researchers who were asked to examine and analyse the nights on their field work site: sites as distant as the Canadian Arctic and Mesoamerica, or nearby territories that provide material for historical research and for the sociology of contemporary life. But how is one to compare Inuit thought that weaves continuity between day and night, dark and light; the nocturnal life of women in a prison world; Mesoamerican nights populated by threatening entities; nights written with glyphs, and works staged in 17th-century theatres; starry skies revealed to their fervent enthusiasts while hidden from urbanites overexposed to light pollution?The concept of nocturnity, used by historians of night, is a tool that enables us to analyse both the emic boundaries of night and day, and also all of the elements of night that penetrate diurnal mental life. The transition from a diurnal imagination towards a nocturnal world, “when night comes”, and vice versa, involves a gradual transformation of ontologies. This raises numerous questions about the notion of boundary: what is the nature of these status shifts by beings and objects that, depending on temporal and cultural context, may constitute phenomena of either connection and continuity, or change and rupture? How should this ethnography of “transition” be analysed—sometimes in terms of an opposition between complementary worlds breaking away from one another, sometimes marking a continuity through an explicit porosity, or even favouring ritually constructed intermediate space-times? Based on beliefs ...
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