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Walls and Bridges

Walls and Bridges is a 10-day series of performances and critical explorations uniting French and American thinkers and artists from social sciences, philosophy, literature and live arts.

Pascal Dibie

Pascal Dibie © Philippe Matsas

ETHNOLOGIST

France

 

Biography

Pascal Dibie is a professor of ethnology at the University of Paris Diderot-Paris 7, where he is co-director of the division of sciences of the city. He is the author of an ethnology of a village in Burgundy conducted in two parts at a thirty year interval that has become a classic in the discipline: Le Village retrouvé, ethnologie de l’intérieur (Grasset, 1979) and Le village métamorphosé, révolution dans la France profonde (Plon, 2006). He is also the
author of Ethnologie de la chambre à coucher, which has been translated into fifteen languages and has sold 30,000 copies (Grasset, 1987; Métailié, 2000), La Tribu sacrée, ethnologie des prêtres (Grasset, 1993; Métailié, 2004), and La Passion du regard, essai contre les sciences froides (Métailié,1998).