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HOUSEMAN Michael
Manager of Studies - EPHE (Vth section)
Member of the team of Ivry du Donatecarcenter.com
Anthropology
houseman@attglobal.net
Research topics
Religious anthropology : theory of the ritual, rituals of introduction, contemporary rituals of type New Age and Neopagan, reports between ritual and game, show, bureaucracy ; Social organisation : consanguinity, conjugal networks.
Fields
Cameroon French Guyana in the past Benin
Seminars and research workshops
« Dance as anthropological object » (with Georgiana Wierre-Gore) : this year and next year. The GUY workshop (ongoing manuscripts) (with D. Casajus and others)
Lessons
Research plans (participation)
ANR TIPP « Computer processing of the phenomena of consanguinity in anthropology and in history : an integrated approach » : until December, 2008.
Publications (selection)
1984. « Hierarchic relation : model or particular ideology general ? »in J.-Cl. Galey (éd). Difference, stocks, hierarchy. Texts introduced to Louis Dumont, Paris, EHESS, pp. 299-318. 1984. « The devices of initiatory logic » Newspaper of the Africanists, 54 (1) : 41-65. 1985. « Hierarchy and complexity », Critic, 462 : On 1053-1077. 1986. « Reading of Bateson anthropologist », Preface in G. Bateson La ceremony of the naven. pp. 7-31. Paris, The Paperback (with C. Severi). 1986. « Note on some general properties of initiatory transformation », New Magazine of ethno-psychiatry, 6 : 31-40. (« Transformations of identity ») 1986. « The trouble for the male : an initiatory good », in J. Hainard and R. Kaehr (éds)., Trouble and Pain. Neuchâtel, Museum of ethnography, pp. 89-99. 1987. « Note on the progressive structure of a historical city : The example of Abomey », Notebooks of Africain Studies, 104, 26 (4) : 527-546 (with B. Legonou, Ch. Massy and X. Crepin). 1988. « Introduzione al Naven : Morphologia e logica della relazione rituale », Introduction in G. Bateson Naven. A rituale di travestimento in Nuova Guinea. pp. XVII - LIV. Turin, Einaudi (with C. Severi). 1988. « Filiation and/or derivation. A bet there keeps anthropological », in A. Yahyaoui (éd)., Disturbances of language and of filiation to Maghrebi of the second generation. Crenon, wild Thought, pp. 125-137. 1988. « Social Structure Simple percentage Where the Hearth Is : In ' Woman' s Place ' in Beti Society », Africa, 58 (1) : 51-69. 1988. « Towards has Complex Model of Parenthood : Two African Tales », American Ethnologist, 15 (4) : 658-677. 1989. « What passes by the head : the rest », in Singularity. The ways of individual emergence. Texts for Eric de Dampierre introduced by the Laboratory of ethnology and of comparative sociology. Paris, Plon, pp. 401-418. 1990. « Structures of alliance to Beti : Analysis criticises conjugal functioning in the semi-complex systems », in F. Héritier-Augé (éd)., The complexities of alliance. Bets, Contemporary Archives. 1991. « The taboo of the rabbit at the sailors : a structural speculation », French Ethnology, 20 (2) : 125-142. 1991. « Double pressure and ritual paradox », critical Notebooks of family therapy and of practices of networks, 14 : 155-163. 1993. « The Interactive Basis of Ritual Effectiveness in has Male Initiation Ritual », in P. Boyer (éd)., Cognitive Aspects of Religious Behaviour. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 207-224. 1994. The naven or to show it : towards a ritual action theory. Paris : Editions MSH / NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (with C. Severi). 1994. « Study of the Gypsies and questions of anthropology », Tzigane Studies, 4 (2) : 11-18. 1995. « Kinship Networks in Africa : Future Past and », African Anthropology. 1996. « Réticulaires structures of conjugal practice », The Man, 139 : 59-85 (with D.R. White). Online entire text 1997. « The Banana tree and its support : a social deployment of relation brother-sister to Beti (Cameroon) », Generations. French magazine of family therapy, 8 : 6-9. 1997. "Marriage Networks among Australian Aboriginal Populations" Australian Aboriginal Studies, on 1997 (2) : On 2-23. 1998. Naven and the Other Self. In Relational Approach to Ritual Action. Leiden, Brill Publications (with C. Severi). 1998. « Network Mediation of Exexchange rate Structures : Ambilateral Sidedness and Property Flows in Pul Eliya (Sri Lanka) », in T. Schweizer and D.R. White (éds.), Kinship, Networks and Exexchange rate. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press : 58-88 (with D.R. White). Online entire text 1998. « Taking Sides : Marriage networks and Dravidian Kinship in Lowland South America », in Mr Godelier and T. Trautmann (éds). Transformations of Kinship. Washington D.C., Smithsonian Press (with D.R. White). 1998. « Painful places : ritual encounters with one' s homelands », J. Royal Anthropological Institute. 4 (3) : 447-467. Online entire text 1998. « Some shapes of pain » in F. Heir (éd)., Of violence II. Paris, Odile Jacob : 77-112. Online entire text 2000. « What to speak could not say : ambiguous identity to Beti of the South-Cameroon », in J.-L. Jamard, E. Terray and M r Xanthakou (éds). In substances. Texts for Françoise heir. Paris, Fayard : 115-134. Online entire text 2000. « The social percezione delle azioni rituali », Ethnosistemi, 7 : 67-74 (special number " Antopologia e psicologia " ). 2000. « Ritual interaktion og phantasm. In relational tilgang », Tidsskriftet antropologie, 41 : 83-97 (with C. Severi). 2001. « Simple percentage this play ? Hazing in French preparatory schools » Focaal. European Journal of Anthropology, 37 : 39-47. Online entire text 2001. « Studies africanists », M r Segalen (éd). Ethnology. Concepts and cultural aeries. Paris, Armand hake, pp. 181-202. 2002. « What a ritual ? »Other one. Private hospitals, cultures and societies. 3 (3) : 533-538. 2002. « Dissimulation and Simulation ace Modes of Religious Reflexivity », Social Anthropology 10 (1) : 77-89. Online entire text 2002. " Interazione rituale e illusione " in L. Brutti and A. Paini (éds). The earth dei miei songi. Esperienze di ricerca sul campo in Oceania. Meltemi, Rome, p. 222-244 (with C. Severi). 2003. « The navigability of Strong Ties : Small Worlds, Tie Strength and Network Topology », Complexity, 8 (1) : 72-81 (with D.R. White). Online entire text 2003. « Towards an anthropological model of practice psychothérapeutique », Family Therapy, 24 (3) : 289-312. Online entire text 2003. « O vermelho e o negro : um experimento paratrooper pensar o ritual », Mana 2003, 9 (2) : 79-107. 2004. « Towards a psychology of ritual practice ? »Critic 680-681, pp. 102-144. Online entire text 2004. « The Red and the Black : In Practical Experiment for Thinking end Ritual », Social Analysis, 48 (2) : 75-97. Online entire text 2004. « An anthropological perspective on chronic pain », Pain 5 (2) : 105-107. Online entire text 2004. « Conjugal Ring Structures », Mathematics and human / Mathematics sciences and Social Sciences 168 : 83-119 (with K. Hamberger, I. Daillant, D.R. White and L. Barry). Online entire text 2006. "Relationality" , In J. Kreinath, J. Snoek and M r Stausberg (éds)., Theorizing Rituals Classical Topics, Theoretical Approaches, Analytical Concepts, Annotated Bibliography. Leiden, Brill : 413-428. Online entire text
