Vapnarsky Valentina
Ethnology
Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (LESC)
France
Biography
Valentina Vapnarsky has been a research fellow at the CNRS since 1999, assigned to the EREA centre (Enseignement et recherche en ethnologie amérindienne / Teaching and Research in American Indian Ethnology), where she is currently the director. She teaches linguistic anthropology at the University of Nanterre, as well as Yucatec Maya, the oral tradition, and the grammar of the Mayan languages at INALCO (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations / l’Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales), where she coordinates the Mayan Language and Culture degree course. She is a member of the GERM (Le Groupe d’enseignement et de recherche maya / The Maya Teaching and Research Group).
Research Interest
Anthropology, linguistics, pragmatics, ethnohistory, categorisation, temporality, oral and written traditions, American Indian literature and language
Publications
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2011 (with O. Le Guen), The guardians of space and history: Understanding ecological and historical relations of the contemporary Yucatec Maya to their landscape, in C. Isendahl and B. Liljefors Persson (eds), Ecology, power, and religion in Maya landscapes (Markt Schwaben, Germany, Verlag Anton Saurwein): 191–206.
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2012 (with A. Monod Becquelin and C. Bequey), Passive and ergativity in three Mayan languages, in G. Authier and K. Haude (eds), Ergativity, valency and voice (Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter).
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2013 eds (with A. Monod Becquelin and M. de Fornel), L’agentivité, vol. II: interactions, grammaire et narrativité [special issue], Ateliers d’anthropologie, 39
