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JUHÉ-BEAULATON Dominique
Charged with 1st Research classifies (NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH) 
Member of the team of Paris of Donatecarcenter.com
Historian
Tél : 01 44 78 33 42
domi.beaulaton@orange.fr
Linked to Research unit n°200 PALOS of IRD " local Heritages " run by Mary-Christine Cormier-Salem (GEOGRAPHER IRD)
Research topics
History of relations societies / environment evolution of the management of the wooded zones, building of natural heritage (s) Heritage and development ; artistic créattion and patrimonial buildings
Fields
Benin cultural aerie Aja-Fon Togo
Seminars and research workshops
Co-organizer of research seminar local Declensions of heritage and of seminar History of the social transformations into Africa
Member of the team history and anthropology of health and of medicine in Africa and of working party artistic Crétion, heritages and identity
Research plans
The natural sacred sites : The “conservation of biodiversity” as source of economic and social stakes (studies of case in the Benin, Burkina Faso and Togo)
Plan financed over three years by the French Institute of biodiversity (IFB)
Research course
Reflexion around heritage
Since my association in 2000, in UR run by M.C. Cormier-Salem (IRD), I orientated my researches on the processes of creation of a natural heritage, so much institutional point of view as local communities. The objects of my researches include the areas accesses of which are regulated by religious principles : trees and sacred, source forests, aquatic areas... The management of these areas and also available resources knew evolutions in touch with sociocultural, historical and environmental factors which an analysis on long length allows to highlight. The role of the state and of institutions, that of local communities, and individuals are examined in turn and their shown possible interlocking. _Après have worked on the definition of the notion of heritage from the point of view of the inhabitants on the south of the Benin and of Togo (cultural aerie Aja-Tado), I try now to grab different stakes which develop around (plant or animal) kinds or around places " Patrimonialisés ". The policies of protections of the environment are under consideration (colonial epoch and after independence) to show intercommunications between the different actors, so much local point of view as at national and international levels. The study of land regime allows to include many litigations which appear between possessors of rights on the earth and farmers concerning the plantations of trees, litigations in increase further to the increasing population pressure, the lack of available lands, the privatisation of the domains of the State (palm groves chosen by the set of Allada) and in the superimposing of two legal systems for the taking over of lands. Studies of ground to the different categories of actors (forested guards, forested farmers, coalmen, village nurserymen, representatives of associative middle, political institutions, religious representatives) continued until July, 2006.
The sacred sites in question
The studied natural sacred sites split between the south of the Benin and of Togo. This zone is at the level of the break of the domain of humid dense forest and of arrival up to the sea of the trainings of Guinean savannahs ("Dahomey Gap" or “savannah of the Benin”). The still present forested islets are generally places of worship sacralisation of which allowed the creation of a sported training (the current dynamics of vegetation is forested) and / or its maintaining when it is about a relic of the ancient forested place setting. Currently, in front of increasing land pressure, these sites think they are often threatened. Further to their deterioration, they make the object of various stakes in touch with environmental policies, actions of the NGO and of the scientists without forgetting local political and religious powers. They attend so more and more frequent interventions of the services of the Forestry authority which recommend the "restoration" of these trainings by the planting of useful forested kinds, either indoors even of islets, or in periphery to establish a zone of protection between forests and cultures. My researches have as objective to accomplish diagnoses of the current state of conservation of studied sites while taking their history into consideration in long length : origin of the creation of sites, evolution of their management in time and in space. This stage of observation and of analysis of processes will be able to be of use for the actors of the conservation of heritage to define the means of action best adapted to assure the preservation of these sites. In the final, it will be a question of analysing if this actions are pertinent in material not only of maintaining of biodiversity but also of conservation of a natural and cultural heritage in the course of structuring.
These researches on the sacred sites register as part of the collective plan financed by INRA over 3 years (2004-2006) continuation in the answer in 2002 to a call of offer of the Institute Frenchman of Biodiversity called “the natural sacred sites : " conservation of biodiversity” as source of economic and social stakes (studies of case in the Benin, Burkina Faso and Togo)”. The results of this ended supporting plan are under way of publication. the final report delayed to IFB is partly available on Hal-shs.
Publications
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D., on 1990, “The broadcasting of the corn on the Coasts of the Gold and of the Slaves in 17 ° and 18 ° centuries”. French Magazine of overseas History ; t. LXXVII n ° 287 : 177-198.
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D., on 1994, “Environment and geographical exploration of the ex-Dahomey (Benin) on the eve of colonial conquest. ”in BRUNEAU and DORY (ed)., Geography of colonisation, - XV °-XX ° centuries. Paris, Harmattan. 420 p. : 289-314. (pdf on Hal-shs)
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D., on 1994, “The gardens of the European forts of Ouidah (Benin) : first trial gardens. ”Notebooks of the Centre of Africain researches, Paris, n°8 : 84-105. Card, 1 pl. (pdf on Hal-shs) JUHÉ-BEAULATON D., on 1995, “History of the plant landscapes of the Coast of the Slaves (South of Togo and of the Benin) : analysis criticises historical sources”. Biogeographica 71 (1), National Natural history museum of Natural history. Paris : 37-44. (pdf on Hal-shs)
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D., on 1998, “"Broad beans", "peas" and "grains" in the gulf of Guinea : problems of identification of plants in the historical sources ”In M. CHASTANET, Plants and landscapes of Africa, a history to be explored. Karthala, CRA : 45-68.
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D., on 1998, “The palm grove of the Benign South before colonisation : trial of historical analysis”. In M. CHASTANET, Plants and landscapes of Africa, a history to be explored. Karthala, CRA : 327-352. (pdf on Hal-shs)
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D., on 1999, “Trees and sacred wood : places of memory of the ancient Coast of the Slaves”. IN J.P. CHRISTIAN And J.L. TRIAUD, History of Africa. Stakes of memory ; Paris ; Karthala, 502 p. (pdf on Hal-shs)
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D., on 2000, “Of the royal garden of the curative plants of Paris in the colonial gardens : development of French tropical agronomy. ”Acts of 120 ° congress of the historical and scientific Societies. Aix-en-Provence, October, 1995 : 267-284. (pdf on Hal-shs)
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D., on 2000, “Wood of heats charcoal and in the South of the Benin : evolution of production in the course of the XXth century”, in A. CORVOL, The source wood of energy : not long ago and today. Notebook of studies n°10, Forest, environment and society, NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : 30-38. (pdf on Hal-shs)
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D., on 2001, “intricate Trees in Africa” in Our History, January, 2001.
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D., on 2002, “Perception of climate and agricultural calendar to Fon of the South of Togo and of the Benin. ”In E. KATZ, In. LAMMEL, M R GOLOUBINOFF (EDS)., Between heaven and earth : Climate and societies, Paris, IRD / IBIS PRESS : 277-298. (pdf on Hal-shs)
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D., on 2002, “The feeding of the men, from vodoun and of the ancestors” in MR CHASTANET, F.X. FAUVELLE and D. JUHÉ-BEAULATON (EDS), Kitchen and society in Africa, history, tastes, know-how, Paris, Karthala : 53-66. (pdf on Hal-shs)
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D., on 2003, “Process of reactivation of sites blest in the South of the Benin”, in MR GRAVARI-BARBAS and P. VIOLIER, Places of culture, culture of places. Local cultural production (s) and emergence of places : dynamics, actors, stakes. University Presses of Rennes : 67-79. (pdf on Hal-shs)
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D., 2006, economic and social Stakes around sacred wood and the « conservation of biodiversity », Benin, Burkina Faso and Togo », Acts of the workshop Dynamic IFB of biodiversity and modalities of access to circles and to resources, Fréjus September 7-9, 2005, Paris, IFB, pp 68-72. (pdf on Hal-shs)
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D., on 2007, « sacred Wood and conservation of biodiversity (south Togo and Benin) », in Deslaurier C. and Juhé-Beaulaton D., Africa, earth of history : in the middle of research with Jean-Pierre Christian, Paris, Karthala : 115-129.
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D., on 2007, « Evolution of food practices in sub-Saharan Africa : of the introduction of the American plants to cubes Maggi », south Cultures, « Kitchen, food and literature », n ° 167, oct.-déc. On 2007 : 47-52.
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D., on 2008, « total Sacred forests and the tournament of biodiversity conservation : the hut of Benin and Togo », Newspaper for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, flight 2, n°3.
Articles in collaboration
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D. and ROUSSEL B., on 1992, “The American plants in tropical Africa”. Overseas notebooks. Magazine of Geography of Claret. 45 (179-180) Juil-Déc. : 373-386.
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D. and ROUSSEL B., on 1994, “Tropics of abundance or tropics threatened : European looks on the flora and the vegetation of humid tropical Africa (XVII °-XX ° centuries)” Paris, M.N.H.N. J.A.T.B.A., flight. XXXVI (2) : 25-38. (pdf on Hal-shs)
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D. and ROUSSEL B., on 1998, “regarding the historicité of the sacred forests of the ancient Coast of the Slaves”. In CHASTANET Mr, Plants and landscapes of Africa, a history to be explored. Karthala, CRA : 353-382. (pdf on Hal-shs)
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D. and ROUSSEL B., on 2002, “The religious sites vodun : heritages in permanent evolution”, in M.-C. Cormier-Salem, D. JUHÉ-BEAULATON, J. BOUTRAIS and B. ROUSSEL (ed), Patrimonialiser the tropical nature. Local dynamics, international stakes. Paris, IRD, collection “Symposiums and seminars” : 415-438. (pdf on Hal-shs)
GUTIERREZ M.-L. and JUHÉ-BEAULATON D., on 2002, “History of the park in Néré (Parkia biglobosa Jacqu. Benth.) on the set of Abomey (Benin) : of his conservation for production and marketing of a condiment, afitin” in overseas Notebooks, Claret, n ° 220, October-December, 2002 : 453-474. (pdf on Hal-shs)
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D. and ROUSSEL B., on 2003, “May vodun sacred spaces be considered ace has natural patrimony ?” In Creating and Representing Sacred Spaces, Special doubles existent, Heft 2-3, Göttinger Beiträge zur Asienforschung, Göttingen, Peust and Gutschmidt Verlag : 33-56. (pdf on Hal-shs)
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D. and LAINÉ A., on 2005, “Recognition and taking over by the Europeans of knowledges phytothérapeutiques on the Africain west coast (XVII-XIXth centuries)”. Ultramarines, June, 2005, T. 93, pp. 47-78. (pdf on Hal-shs)
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D. and BOUTRAIS J., on 2005, « New reading of reports society-nature », in M.-C. Cormier-Salem, D. Juhé-Beaulaton, J. Boutrais and B. Roussel (eds), 2005, natural Heritages in South. Land conflicts in the promotion of local knowledges. Paris, IRD, collection "Symposiums and seminars" : 23-50. (pdf on Hal-shs)
DESLAURIER C. and JUHÉ-BEAULATON D., on 2007, « Jean-Pierre Christian, a historian in his time », in DESLAURIER C. and JUHÉ-BEAULATON D. (ed)., on 2007, Africa, earth of history : in the middle of research with Jean-Pierre Christian, Paris, Karthala : 5-27.
Editorial activities
CORMIER-SALEM M.-C., JUHÉ-BEAULATON D., BOUTRAIS J. and ROUSSEL B. (Eds)., on 2002, Patrimonialiser the tropical nature. Local dynamics, international stakes. Paris, IRD, collection “Symposiums and seminars”, 467 p.
CHASTANET Mr, FAUVELLE F.X. and JUHÉ-BEAULATON D. (Eds)., on 2002, Kitchen and society in Africa, history, tastes, know-how, Paris, Karthala, 291 p.
CORMIER-SALEM M.-C., JUHÉ-BEAULATON D., BOUTRAIS J. and ROUSSEL B. (Eds)., 2005, natural Heritages in the South. Land conflicts in the promotion of local knowledges. Paris, IRD, collection “Symposiums and seminars”. 550 p.
Preparation of the file « health and its practices in Africa, stakes of knowledges and of powers, XVII °-XX ° centuries » published in the magazine Ultramarines, June, 2005, T. 93 in collaboration with A. Lainé (Mald), K. Delaunay (IRD) and A. Hugon (Mald / University of Grenoble 2).
DESLAURIER C. and JUHÉ-BEAULATON D., on 2007, Africa, earth of history. In the middle of research with Jean-Pierre Christian, Paris, Karthala.
Preparing :
JUHÉ-BEAULATON D. (Éd), sacred Forests or wooded sanctuaries. Places to specify, invented heritages, to appear.
