“The categories of Nature and Culture in the Himalayas”

CNRS, Villejuif, France, 27-28 February 2004.
A workshop organized by M. Lecomte-Tilouine

Program:

Presentation

Part I.

Charles Malamoud (Directeur d'études honoraire à L'Ecole Pratique des hautes Etudes, Ve section): Les catégories de Nature et Culture dans l'Inde brahmanique (in French).
Roberte Hamayon (Directeur d'études à L'Ecole Pratique des hautes Etudes, Ve section): 'Culture' within 'Nature' in shamanic societies living on hunting in Siberia.
Fernand Meyer (Directeur d'études à L'Ecole Pratique des hautes Etudes, IVe section): The categories of nature and culture in Tibetan traditions.
Marc Gaborieau (Directeur de recherches CNRS,/EHESS): Allah, Saints, men and the government of nature in Islam.

Part II.

Ben Campbell (PhD. Manchester University, G.B.): Beyond cultural models of Himalayan nature: the dwelling perspective and political ecology.
Janna Fortier (University of California, San Diego, E.U.) : The categories of living beings and the representation of the world among the Raute nomadic hunters.
Subhadra Channa (Professor, Delhi University, New Delhi, Inde) : Religion, Cosmology and Sacred landscape of the Jads, a pastoral community of Garhwal, India.
Stéphane Gros (PhD student, Paris X, Nanterre) : Cosmological order and ideas of species among the Drung of Northwest Yunnan (China).
Pascal Bouchery (lecturer, Université de Poitiers) : Impacts of ressources managment on The Ani's conception of the environment (Yunan).
Rachel Guidoni (PhD student, Paris X, Nanterre) : Some notes concerning natural and cultural Tibetan pearl-relics.
Chiara Laetizia (PhD, Roma, Italy) : The sacred confluence, between nature and culture.
Peter Sutherland (Director, International Studies, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, E.U.) : Power comes from outside: competing cosmologies in west Himalayan myth.
Seira Tamang (PhD, Martin Chautari/Center for Social Research and Development, Kathmandu): Redefining Nature and Culture: Negotiating Homsexuality in Nepal.
Claus P. Zoller (Researcher, Sudasien Institüt, Heidelberg, Germany): Swinging between nature and culture: lovers and their songs in Indus Kohistan (North Pakistan).
Harka Gurung (PhD, former Minister of Tourism, New Era, Kathmandu): Religious Transition among Three Tamang Peoples. Comparative description of Shamanic groups that show processes of Buddhism to Hinduism (Thakali), Shamanism to Buddhism (Gurung), and remain faithful to Buddhism (Tamang).