Erwan Dianteill

Erwan Dianteill
Born 1967
Nationality French
Employer Paris Descartes University (Faculty of Human and Social Sciences - Sorbonne)
Organization CANTHEL - Center for Cultural & Social Anthropology
Title Sociologist & Ethnologist

Erwan Dianteill (born 1967) is a French sociologist and anthropologist, graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Cachan, holder of the aggregation in the Social Sciences, Doctor of Sociology and professor of Cultural and Social anthropology at the Sorbonne (Paris Descartes University).[1] He is also a Senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France since 2012[2]

Dianteill’s work explores anthropological and sociological theories about religion and interconnections between political and religious powers. It also includes the study of symbolic origins of domination and resistance.

He has done researches on Afro-American cultures (Cuba, United States, Brazil), on the evolution of autochtonous religions in West Africa (Benin) and on new Christian churches. He published two books on Afrocuban religions in Havana[3][4] and one book on the African American Spiritual Church in New Orleans.[5][6]

Erwan Dianteill is presently completing this Afro-Atlantic research with a fieldwork in West Africa : he has been conducting a fieldwork since 2007 in Porto-Novo (Benin) on the transformation of the Fa/Ifá divination in a modern African city (in 2009, film of a Fa/Ifá initiation and complete recording of the myths attached to the Fa/Ifá divination signs). He also conducts a critical reading of the history of anthropology and sociology of religions (two books already published with Michael Löwy).[7][8]

Erwan Dianteill is the head of The Center of Cultural and Social Anthropology – CANTHEL[9] – component of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences – Sorbonne.[10] Along with Francis Affergan, he founded CARGO [11] – International journal of Cultural and Social anthropology, in 2011.

He was a visiting professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Tulane University (New Orleans), the University of Buenos Aires, the National University of Honduras, the University of Havana, the University of Vienna and the Harvard University (Divinity School) in 2016.[12]

Scientific and editorial responsibilities

2011 – ****. Chief editor of CARGO, International journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology - Paris Descartes University (Faculty of Human and Social Sciences - Sorbonne) / Bordeaux Segalen University.

2010 – ****. Director of CANTHEL - Center for Cultural and Social Anthropology (EA 4545 - CANTHEL) - Paris Descartes University (Faculty of Human and Social Sciences - Sorbonne).

2009 – 2011. Director of the Social Sciences Department - Paris Descartes University (Faculty of Human and Social Sciences - Sorbonne).

2005 – 2008. Director of the Master degree "Sciences of religions and societies - Religion Social Sciences" at the EHESS.

2007 – 2008. Chief editor of Gradhiva, journal of anthropology and museology (musée du quai Branly).

Education and career

2016 – Visiting Professor at the Harvard University (Divinity School).

2013 – Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna (Austria).

2012 – ****. Senior member of the Institut universitaire de France (Cultural and Social Anthropology).

2008 – ****. Professor of anthropology at the Sorbonne (Paris Descartes University).

2007 – Visiting Professor at Tulane University (New-Orlean).

1999 – 2008. Senior Lecturer at EHESS.[13]

1998 – 1999. Visiting Professor at University of California (Santa Barbara).

1997 – 1998. Postdoctoral - University of California (Santa Barbara).

1993 – 1997. PhD – Paris X Nanterre / ENS Cachan.

Main publications (in French)

2011 Eshu, god of Africa and the New World (with Michèle Chouchan), Paris, Larousse, 190 p.

2009 Sociology and religion III – Unusual approaches (with Michael Löwy), Paris, PUF, collection "Sociology today”, 183 p.

2008 (editor, with Bertrand Hell) The Spectacular Possession : theater and globalization, journal Gradhiva, April 2008.

2006 The Black Samaritan Woman - African American Spiritual churches in New Orleans, Editions de l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, collection « Cahiers de l’Homme », 264 p. (Includes a DVD of the documentary “Roll With The Spirit”, 48 mins, in english with french subtitles)

2006 Sociology and religion II – Dissident approaches (with Michael Löwy), Paris, PUF, collection "Sociology today”, 188 p.

2000 Of Gods and signs - Initiation, divination and writing in Afro-Cuban religions. Paris, Editions de l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, collection « Civilisations et sociétés », 383 p

Main publications (in English)

2012 "Cultural Anthropology or Social Anthropology ? A Transatlantic Dispute", L’Année sociologique, dossier : Sociologie et anthropologie, 93-122.

2009, (with Martha Swearingen) "From Hierography To Ethnography And Back: the Relationship between Lydia Cabrera’s Texts and the Written Tradition in Afro-Cuban Religions", Journal of American Folklore, Summer 2003, 116 (461) : 273-292 (reprint in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Gale Cengage publishing, 223).

2005 "Cuban Folklore", in Clements, William M. ed.,Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore, (4 volumes).

2003 "Pierre Bourdieu and the sociology of religion : a central and peripheral concern", Theory and Society, 32 : 529-549.

2002 "De-territorialisation and re-territorialisation of the Orisha religion in Africa and in the New World (Nigeria, Cuba, United-States", International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Oxford, UK, March 2002 : 121-137.

2002 "Kongo in Cuba – Transformations of an African Religion", Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions, 117 : 59-80.

1999 "Afro-Cuban Religions" and "Bricolage", in Roof, Wade Clark, ed., Encyclopedia of American Religions, New York, Mac Millan.

External links

References

  1. ↑ "E. Dianteill's lectures at the Sorbonne".
  2. ↑ "E. Dianteill on the IUF website".
  3. ↑ "Des dieux et des signes Initiation, écriture et divination dans les religions afro-cubaines, Paris, Editions de l'EHESS, 2000". line feed character in |title= at position 24 (help)
  4. ↑ "LE SAVANT ET LE SANTERO : Naissance de l'étude scientifique des religions afro-cubaines (1906-1954), Paris, l'Harmattan, 1995".
  5. ↑ "La Samaritaine Noire, Paris, Editions de l'EHESS, 2006".
  6. ↑ "E. Dianteill books on the BNF website".
  7. ↑ "Sociologies et religion. Volume 2, Paris, PUF, 2006".
  8. ↑ "Sociologies et religion. Volume 3, Paris, PUF, 2009".
  9. ↑ "CANTHEL - Center for Cultural Anthropology / Sorbonne".
  10. ↑ "CANTHEL Aeres rating 2013" (PDF).
  11. ↑ "CARGO - International journal for cultural and social anthropology".
  12. ↑ "HDS courses taught by Erwan Dianteill".
  13. ↑ "EHESS Seminars 2008-2009".
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