Rivoal Isabelle
Ethnology
Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (LESC)
France
Biography
Isabelle Rioval has a degree in political science and a PhD in social and historical anthropology from the EHESS (l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales / School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences). She joined the CNRS in 2001 and has been a member of the LESC since then. She has been the Deputy director of the MAE (the Institute for Archeaology and Ethnology, René-Ginouvès) since 2012.
Research Interest
religious minorities and the state, social organisation and forms of leadership, construction of politics, categories of young people, social change and uncertainty
Publications
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2011, Las invención de las primarias. Conflictos en tourno a la designación de un candidato en una aldea árabe de Israel, in V. M. Franco Pellotier, D. Dehouve and A. Hémond (eds), Formas de voto, prácticas de las asambleas y toma de decisiones. Un acercamiento comparativo (Mexico, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en AntropologÃa Social): 469–483.
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2012, Intimité, mise en scène et distance dans la relation politique au Liban, in F. Mermier and S. Mervin (eds), Leaders et partisans au Liban (Paris/Beyrouth, Karthala/IFPO/IISMM): 139–165.
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2012, Les Fêtes religieuses druzes: cheminement spirituel et solidarité communautaire, in T-M Courau and H. de La Hougue (eds), Rites, fêtes et célébrations de l’humanité (Paris, Bayard): 415–426
