Raveneau Gilles
Ethnology
Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (LESC)
France
Biography
Gilles Raveneau joined the University of Paris West Nanterre La Défense as a senior lecturer in 2000, after having taught at the Universities of Angers and Rouen. He completed his PhD thesis in ethnology and comparative sociology in 1998 under the supervision of Martine Segalen. He mainly conducts research into gathering practices, high-risk physical activities and sports in natural settings, ways of living in nature, and social and political restrictions on the management of one’s own body.
Research Interest
physical risks and challenges, social and cultural body customs, biologisation of social issues, sport, hobbies, precious materials and societies, applied anthropology
Publications
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2011 eds (with D. Memmi andE. Taieb), Anatomie du dégoût [n° thématique], Ethnologie française, 41 (1).
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2011 eds (with O. Sirost), Anthropologie des abris de loisirs (Paris, Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest).
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2016 eds (with D. Memmi et E. Taïeb), Le social à l’épreuve du dégoût (Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes).
