Garine Éric De
Ethnology
Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (LESC)
France
Biography
Ethnologist Éric Garine studies anthropological phenomena at the interface between biology and culture, in the context of a multidisciplinary collaboration with life science practitioners. His approach is based on fieldwork in Central Africa (mainly Cameroon), and involves the analysis of knowledge about nature, methods of subsistence (particularly agriculture) and diet. The fulcrum of his approach is the study of indigenous systems of knowledge about biological phenomena in the environment. This research follows the general trend of studying the dynamics of relationships between societies and their environments. It is designed to take account of contemporary phenomena, especially the effect of rural development policy has on knowledge and subsistence.
Research Interest
Ethnobiology, anthropology of nutrition, study of subsistence systems, biology/culture interface
Publications
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2014 (J. Wencélius, E. Garine), Dans les sillons de l’alliance. Ethnographie de la circulation des semences de sorgho dans l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun?, Les Cahiers d’Outre-Mer, 265: 93-116.
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2016 (C. Violon, M. Thomas, E. Garine), Good year, bad year: changing strategies, changing networks? A two-year study on seed acquisition in northern Cameroon, Ecology and Society, 21 (2): 34
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2016 ed. (E. Garine, M.L. Rodrigo-Estevan, C. Raimond, F.X. Medina), Sharing Food (Guadalajara (Jalisco), Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad de Guadalajara) [Estudios del Hombre, 35; Serie AntropologÃa de la Alimentación].
