Founded in 1971 by Jean Cuisenier within the Centre d’Ethnologie Française, Ethnologie française made an early effort to break with the approach of the folklorists who dominated the analysis of social and cultural facts observed in France as well as in Europe at that time.

The journal focuses primarily – although not exclusively – on European societies through the lens of ethnographic studies but also of other perspectives including history, sociology, political science, geography, and literary studies


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The challenges of open science: a shared anthropology?

The challenges of open science: a shared anthropology?

Vol. 54, 2024/2 - pages
Pages 5 to 16

Introduction: Is an “open anthropology” possible?

By Jessica De Largy Healy, Monica Heintz
Pages 17 to 32

Real-Time Repatriation: Data Governance for Social Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century

By James. W. W Rose
Pages 33 to 46

When physical anthropology “specimens” turn back into ancestors: Ethnographic materials on the Indigenous peoples of Southern Africa in the age of open science

By Damiana Otoiu
Pages 47 to 61

Anthropologist, spy, and apprentice: “Secreting” the data produced on the African art market in Burkina Faso in the age of open science

By Julie Cayla
Pages 63 to 77

What Changes when an Object Change Hands? Paths and Troubles in the Musealisation of Activist Objects related to the Fight against HIV/AIDS

By Renaud Chantraine
Pages 79 to 88

Doing the Underdog Research: Ethics, Trust, Friendship

By Aimar Ventsel
Pages 89 to 98

From self-reflection to facial recognition data: Forty years of ethnographic research in the People’s Republic of China

By Sabine Trebinjac
Pages 99 to 113

When anthropological investigations are brought before research ethics committees

By Baptiste Moutaud, Anthony Stavrianakis, in conversation with Jessica De Largy Healy, Monica Heintz
Pages 115 to 117

Jerome W. Crowder, Mike Fortun, Rachel Besara and Lindsay Poirier (eds.)Anthropological Data in the Digital Age: New Possibilities, New Challenges Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 270 p.

By Charlotte Gruson
Pages 117 to 119

Hannah Turner. Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum DocumentationVancouver/Toronto, University of British Columbia Press, 2020, 243 p.

By Andreea Broască
Pages 119 to 121

Felicity Bodenstein, Damiana Oţoiu and Eva-Maria Troelenberg (eds.)Contested Holdings. Museum Collections in Political, Epistemic and Artistic Processes of Return New York/Oxford, Berghahn, 2022, 293 p.

By par Garance Nyssen
Pages 121 to 124

Katja Müller. Digital Archives and Collections: Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage Oxford/New York, Berghahn, coll. “Anthropology of Media”, 11, 2021, 253 p.

By Hélène Trébuchet
Pages 125 to 138

From “you” to “us”: The influence of the senses in the construction of a foster family

By Alice Anton
Pages 139 to 154

Attaining legitimacy in rural areas: Power dynamics and identities in neo-rural settlements in Ariège and the Massif central

By Madeleine Sallustio, Benjamin Dubertrand
Pages 155 to 159

Fabre variations

By Laurent Le Gall
Pages 161 to 163

Bernadette Lizet. Le cheval en robe de mariée. Des marchands de chevaux en France. 1880-1980 Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2024, 394 pp. with photo booklet

By Philippe Bonnin
Pages 163 to 165

Mariann Vaczi and Alan Bairner (eds.), Indigenous, Traditional and Folk Sports. Contesting Modernities, Londres/New York, Routledge, coll. “Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society”, 2024, 286 p.

By Laurent Sébastien Fournier
Pages 165 to 167

Hélène Artaud. Immersion. Rencontre des mondes atlantique et pacifique, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2023, 304 pp.

By Lucie Fortun, Nadège Legroux, Manon Airaud, Lorena Cisneros
Pages 167 to 170

Jérôme Beauchez. Les sauvages de la civilisation. Regards sur la Zone, d’hier à aujourd’hui, Paris, Éditions Amsterdam, 2022, 464 pp.

By Océane de Oliveira