Baptandier Brigitte
Ethnology
Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (LESC)
France
Biography
Brigitte Baptandier is an ethnologist and Sinologist. Her research, first in Taiwan (1979) and then in China (in Fujian, where she has been going regularly since 1986, in Jiangxi and in Hunan since 2004) initially focused on gender categories, the feminine, as well as representations of maternity and the female body in the myths and rituals of Chinese religion. She is interested in the Lushan Daoist tradition, which borrows many characteristics from Tantric Buddhism, and features healing and exorcism rituals similar to those of shamanism. Its ritual masters often act in cooperation with mediums. Brigitte Baptandier has therefore dealt with the question of trance, which she considers an elaboration of the self. This approach opens the door to a particular anthropology of the self, some elements of which serve as catalysts, particularly the manipulation of subjects in genealogies (adoption), dreams, categories of the self, of doubles and of transference. Brigitte Baptandier analyses these in relation to psychoanalysis.
Research Interest
Gender categories, female representations, religion, myths, rituals, writing
Publications
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2012, Le corps dans le Taiji quan et dans la psychanalyse, in Le corps présent dans la cure de psychanalyse?: 1–7 [Colloque franco-chinois de psychanalyse, Institut de recherche sur la psychanalyse, Chengdu, Chine].
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2012, Des ancêtres, de la malemort et des dieux, in Sylvie Dreyfus-Asséo, Gilles Tarabout, Dominique Cupa, Guillemine Chaudoye (eds), Les Ancêtres (Paris, EDK): 105–112.
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2012, Du meurtre symbolique du père et de l’aspect insaisissable du présent, Extrême-Orient, Extrême Occident: 277–311 [special issue: Romain Graziani, Rainier Lanselle (ed.), Père Institué, Père questionné].
