Pierre Petit
Biographic Data
| ID | 103538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pierre Petit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pierre |
| FAMILY NAME | Petit |
| SIGNATURE | PETIT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Paul McBain, The Amulet Culture of Thailand: Journal of the Siam Society 112 (2), 2024, p. 7-154
Depuis une quinzaine d’années environ, les recherches sur la culture des amulettes en Thaïlande se multiplient. Ce dossier, publié dans le Journal of the Siam Society, est le fruit du premier colloque tenu sur le sujet, en juin 2023 à l’Université Thammasat de Bangkok.Les recherches sur la religion en Thaïlande se sont généralement concentrées sur l’étude du Bouddhisme des élites, considéré à partir des textes, éclipsant de ce fait certaines prat…
Political propaganda in Northeast and Southeast Asia: Seminar series on “State and Society in East Asia”, February‐May 2023, Université Libre de Bruxelles
The seminar series featured contributions focused on China, Japan, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand, with the aim of understanding how large-scale communication campaigns are organized (or were organized in the recent past) to influence local audiences and increase their engagement with current policies and ideologies. With the authoritarian turn and the militaristic developments occurring in much of East and Southeast Asia, addressing this topic seem…
Anthropology & Photography: Introduction
The goal of this special issue of Civilisations is to explore the relationship between the anthropological project of understanding humankind and the practice of photography, in a continuation of the long-standing debate begun in the Anglophone world and continued more recently, in the Francophone world, by the journals Ethnologie française (2007) and Gradhiva (2018). Adopting a landscape format in full colour for the occasion to give visual cont…
Anthropologie & photographie: Introduction
Explorer les relations entre le projet anthropologique de compréhension de l’humain et la démarche photographique : telle est l’ambition de ce dossier de Civilisations, qui prolonge ainsi la réflexion buissonnante entamée de longue date dans le champ anglophone et prolongé plus récemment, du côté francophone, par les revues Ethnologie française (2007) et Gradhiva (2018). Adoptant pour la circonstance un format « à l’italienne » et tout en couleur…
AfricaMuseum reopening Tervuren, Belgium
The reopening in December 2018 of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA/MRAC), now also known as the AfricaMuseum, after five years of renovation (Fig. 1), has been a major event, not only in Belgium but way beyond its borders. Given the world wide celebrity of this interdisciplinary institution with its extraordinary collection of historical artifacts, I have considered it essential to solicit multiple voices and views. The commissioning of …
Emerging public space in rural Laos
While urban settings stand at the forefront in discussions about public spaces in socialist East- and Southeast Asia, rural public spaces in the region have been hitherto largely unexplored. Drawing on two different upland cases from the northern part of Laos, this contribution identifies local vernacular public spaces on the one hand, and emerging state-connected public spaces on the other. The latter will be argued to comprise: (1) state-contro…
Our Lady of Congo: The Creation and Reception of an Early Missionary Propaganda Devotion
In 1891, the founder of the Matadi mission commissioned a master sculptor in Ghent to create a neo-gothic Madonna and child with a kneeling, imploring African released from the shackles of slavery at the Virgin’s feet. “Our Lady of Congo” was expected by its creators to become the tutelary figure of the new colony. In Belgium, it was successfully used as missionary propaganda, notably by the Society for Congolese Children, a pious association set…
Public spaces in late socialist East Asia: Interactions, performativity, citizenship
Prologue Picture a small, white-brick-walled café with bossa nova playing in the background, only a stone’s throw away from Shanghai’s famous shopping area Nanjing Road. Two elder women enter. From their enthusiastic tone and unembarrassed, loud voices as they interact with the staff, one can tell that they might be regulars, and most likely Shanghai-born. One of them orders a takeaway coffee, and shortly after, Fei, a rural migrant in his mid-tw…
Mobility and Stability in a Tai Vat Village (Laos)
This article explores how Tai highlanders experience mobility. The Tai Vat living in Houaphan Province, Laos, first fled Vietnam at the end of the nineteenth century, and again during the First Indochina War. They presently engage in migrations to rural areas of the Mekong Plain as well as to Vientiane, the destination favoured by Tai youth. They relate their current mobilities to their past experiences, and also to issues of ‘development’. Thoug…
Luc de Heusch et l’éthnographie tetela (1952-1954)
Contrairement à la majorité des anthropologues, Luc de Heusch (1927-2012) n’a pas bâti sa réputation sur ses propres enquêtes ethnographiques, réalisées en l’occurrence parmi les Tetela du Congo entre 1952 et 1954. Déçu par cette expérience, il consacra sa thèse de doctorat en 1955 au symbolisme de l’inceste royal dans les sociétés des Grands Lacs. Ainsi commença une période de plus de trois décennies durant lesquelles il ne revint plus sur ses r…
Luc de Heusch, anthropologue et cinéaste (1927 / 2012)
Luc de Heusch compte parmi les fondateurs de l’anthropologie sociale en Belgique. Il analyse, selon une démarche comparative, les transformations structurales à l’œuvre dans les systèmes symboliques et sociaux des sociétés de l’Afrique subsaharienne, adoptant une attitude de dialogue avec les spécialistes d’autres régions du monde et d’autres disciplines. Il est aussi un des pionniers de l’anthropologie visuelle. Né dans un milieu bourgeois, il r…
Ethnic Performance and the State in Laos: The Boun Greh Annual Festival of the Khmou
Following the 1975 revolution, the Laotian statesmen adopted a modernising discourse that targeted “backward” traditions as undesirable. But since the 1990s, authorities have mitigated this standpoint, distinguishing “good” from “bad” traditions according to their compatibility with the program of national development, and professing their will to (re)instate the former as suitable expressions of culture in a multi-ethnic nation. This is manifest…
Introduction: The Study of the State in Laos
SCOPUS: ed.j
La Coopération Universitaire Belgo-Congolaise: Le Rôle Des Mises en Récit
Les universités francophones de Belgique ont développé depuis 1999 un important programme de coopération avec l’Université de Lubumbashi. En nous basant sur notre expérience personnelle, nous dégagerons les ressorts à l’origine de cette collaboration en resituant la logique des partenaires belges et congolais dans leur arène locale respective. Ensuite, nous étudierons la façon dont les acteurs évaluent, de chaque côté de l’interface, cette coopér…
Publications récentes du Centre d'anthropologie de l'ULB relatives au Congo
info:eu-repo/semantics/published
Rethinking Internal Migrations in Lao PDR: The Resettlement Process under Micro-Analysis
Current debates about the resettlement issue in Laos point to the need to pay closer attention to the migrants' representations and practices. In this article, three biographies of recent settlers in Thongnamy (Bolikhamxay Province) are analysed to highlight some concrete mechanisms at work in this context of socio-economic change. People rely on a diversity of resources to make ends meet, with varying success. Kinship and social capital are vita…
Migrations, ethnicité et nouveaux villages au Laos. L'implantation des Hmong, Tai Dam et Khmou à Thongnamy (province de Bolikhamsay)
Cet article remet sur le métier la question du rapport des « minorités » avec l'État à une époque de mobilité accrue en Asie du Sud-Est et propose, sur le mode de l'essai, des éléments de comparaison avec la situation en Afrique centrale. Les mesures gouvernementales prohibant l'agriculture d'abattis-brûlis sont devenues effectives à partir de l'an 2000 dans de nombreuses régions montagneuses du nord du Laos. Elles ont déclenché un vaste mouvemen…
La Crise: Lexicon and Ethos of the Second Economy in Lubumbashi
The second, or informal, economy developed later in Lubumbashi (DRC) than it had in Kinshasa. The Katanga metropolis, long protected from the process of informalization thanks to its large industrial complexes, suffered seriously from the crisis of the 1990s which led to the collapse of the mining industry and, more generally, of the whole salaried sector. After a brief history of the city and of the state of play of the informal economy, this ar…
Luba: To the Sources of the Zaire
Les charmes du roi sont les esprits des morts: Les fondements religieux de la royauté sacrée chez les Luba du Zaïre
Basé sur des faits observés chez les Luba du Shaba (Zaïre) et leurs voisins, cet article analyse le rapport entre le roi sacré et les esprits. Le lien puissant qui les unit apparaît comme une source importante de l'efficacité symbolique de la royauté, trop souvent réduite au seul thème de la monstruosité ou de l'ambivalence du souverain. L'épopée du royaume sert de fil conducteur, car elle évoque de façon subtile trois institutions au coeur de ce…
Républicain et protestant: Eugène Réveillaud (1851-1931)
Born in 1851 into a family of teachers in Charente-Maritime, Eugène Réveil-laud soon reveals his republican and anticlerical convictions in his youth. In 1878, while working as a lawyer and journalist at Troyes, he becomes a Protestant con¬ vert. He immediately shows himself a zealous propagandist : as the founder of the weekly Le Signal, by conference tours, and on the theme of the colonizing of Alge¬ ria. . . As first a député and later a senat…
Young Pianists
La Crise: Lexicon and Ethos of the Second Economy in Lubumbashi
The second, or informal, economy developed later in Lubumbashi (DRC) than it had in Kinshasa. The Katanga metropolis, long protected from the process of informalization thanks to its large industrial complexes, suffered seriously from the crisis of the 1990s which led to the collapse of the mining industry and, more generally, of the whole salaried sector. After a brief history of the city and of the state of play of the informal economy, this ar…
Ethnic Performance and the State in Laos: The Boun Greh Annual Festival of the Khmou
Following the 1975 revolution, the Laotian statesmen adopted a modernising discourse that targeted “backward” traditions as undesirable. But since the 1990s, authorities have mitigated this standpoint, distinguishing “good” from “bad” traditions according to their compatibility with the program of national development, and professing their will to (re)instate the former as suitable expressions of culture in a multi-ethnic nation. This is manifest…
Rethinking Internal Migrations in Lao PDR: The Resettlement Process under Micro-Analysis
Current debates about the resettlement issue in Laos point to the need to pay closer attention to the migrants' representations and practices. In this article, three biographies of recent settlers in Thongnamy (Bolikhamxay Province) are analysed to highlight some concrete mechanisms at work in this context of socio-economic change. People rely on a diversity of resources to make ends meet, with varying success. Kinship and social capital are vita…
Introduction: The Study of the State in Laos
SCOPUS: ed.j
Mobility and Stability in a Tai Vat Village (Laos)
This article explores how Tai highlanders experience mobility. The Tai Vat living in Houaphan Province, Laos, first fled Vietnam at the end of the nineteenth century, and again during the First Indochina War. They presently engage in migrations to rural areas of the Mekong Plain as well as to Vientiane, the destination favoured by Tai youth. They relate their current mobilities to their past experiences, and also to issues of ‘development’. Thoug…
Les charmes du roi sont les esprits des morts: Les fondements religieux de la royauté sacrée chez les Luba du Zaïre
Basé sur des faits observés chez les Luba du Shaba (Zaïre) et leurs voisins, cet article analyse le rapport entre le roi sacré et les esprits. Le lien puissant qui les unit apparaît comme une source importante de l'efficacité symbolique de la royauté, trop souvent réduite au seul thème de la monstruosité ou de l'ambivalence du souverain. L'épopée du royaume sert de fil conducteur, car elle évoque de façon subtile trois institutions au coeur de ce…
Our Lady of Congo: The Creation and Reception of an Early Missionary Propaganda Devotion
In 1891, the founder of the Matadi mission commissioned a master sculptor in Ghent to create a neo-gothic Madonna and child with a kneeling, imploring African released from the shackles of slavery at the Virgin’s feet. “Our Lady of Congo” was expected by its creators to become the tutelary figure of the new colony. In Belgium, it was successfully used as missionary propaganda, notably by the Society for Congolese Children, a pious association set…
AfricaMuseum reopening Tervuren, Belgium
The reopening in December 2018 of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA/MRAC), now also known as the AfricaMuseum, after five years of renovation (Fig. 1), has been a major event, not only in Belgium but way beyond its borders. Given the world wide celebrity of this interdisciplinary institution with its extraordinary collection of historical artifacts, I have considered it essential to solicit multiple voices and views. The commissioning of …
Emerging public space in rural Laos
While urban settings stand at the forefront in discussions about public spaces in socialist East- and Southeast Asia, rural public spaces in the region have been hitherto largely unexplored. Drawing on two different upland cases from the northern part of Laos, this contribution identifies local vernacular public spaces on the one hand, and emerging state-connected public spaces on the other. The latter will be argued to comprise: (1) state-contro…
Public spaces in late socialist East Asia: Interactions, performativity, citizenship
Prologue Picture a small, white-brick-walled café with bossa nova playing in the background, only a stone’s throw away from Shanghai’s famous shopping area Nanjing Road. Two elder women enter. From their enthusiastic tone and unembarrassed, loud voices as they interact with the staff, one can tell that they might be regulars, and most likely Shanghai-born. One of them orders a takeaway coffee, and shortly after, Fei, a rural migrant in his mid-tw…
Young Pianists
Républicain et protestant: Eugène Réveillaud (1851-1931)
Born in 1851 into a family of teachers in Charente-Maritime, Eugène Réveil-laud soon reveals his republican and anticlerical convictions in his youth. In 1878, while working as a lawyer and journalist at Troyes, he becomes a Protestant con¬ vert. He immediately shows himself a zealous propagandist : as the founder of the weekly Le Signal, by conference tours, and on the theme of the colonizing of Alge¬ ria. . . As first a député and later a senat…
Luba: To the Sources of the Zaire
Les charmes du roi sont les esprits des morts: Les fondements religieux de la royauté sacrée chez les Luba du Zaïre
Basé sur des faits observés chez les Luba du Shaba (Zaïre) et leurs voisins, cet article analyse le rapport entre le roi sacré et les esprits. Le lien puissant qui les unit apparaît comme une source importante de l'efficacité symbolique de la royauté, trop souvent réduite au seul thème de la monstruosité ou de l'ambivalence du souverain. L'épopée du royaume sert de fil conducteur, car elle évoque de façon subtile trois institutions au coeur de ce…
La Crise: Lexicon and Ethos of the Second Economy in Lubumbashi
The second, or informal, economy developed later in Lubumbashi (DRC) than it had in Kinshasa. The Katanga metropolis, long protected from the process of informalization thanks to its large industrial complexes, suffered seriously from the crisis of the 1990s which led to the collapse of the mining industry and, more generally, of the whole salaried sector. After a brief history of the city and of the state of play of the informal economy, this ar…
Migrations, ethnicité et nouveaux villages au Laos. L'implantation des Hmong, Tai Dam et Khmou à Thongnamy (province de Bolikhamsay)
Cet article remet sur le métier la question du rapport des « minorités » avec l'État à une époque de mobilité accrue en Asie du Sud-Est et propose, sur le mode de l'essai, des éléments de comparaison avec la situation en Afrique centrale. Les mesures gouvernementales prohibant l'agriculture d'abattis-brûlis sont devenues effectives à partir de l'an 2000 dans de nombreuses régions montagneuses du nord du Laos. Elles ont déclenché un vaste mouvemen…
Rethinking Internal Migrations in Lao PDR: The Resettlement Process under Micro-Analysis
Current debates about the resettlement issue in Laos point to the need to pay closer attention to the migrants' representations and practices. In this article, three biographies of recent settlers in Thongnamy (Bolikhamxay Province) are analysed to highlight some concrete mechanisms at work in this context of socio-economic change. People rely on a diversity of resources to make ends meet, with varying success. Kinship and social capital are vita…
La Coopération Universitaire Belgo-Congolaise: Le Rôle Des Mises en Récit
Les universités francophones de Belgique ont développé depuis 1999 un important programme de coopération avec l’Université de Lubumbashi. En nous basant sur notre expérience personnelle, nous dégagerons les ressorts à l’origine de cette collaboration en resituant la logique des partenaires belges et congolais dans leur arène locale respective. Ensuite, nous étudierons la façon dont les acteurs évaluent, de chaque côté de l’interface, cette coopér…
Publications récentes du Centre d'anthropologie de l'ULB relatives au Congo
info:eu-repo/semantics/published
Luc de Heusch et l’éthnographie tetela (1952-1954)
Contrairement à la majorité des anthropologues, Luc de Heusch (1927-2012) n’a pas bâti sa réputation sur ses propres enquêtes ethnographiques, réalisées en l’occurrence parmi les Tetela du Congo entre 1952 et 1954. Déçu par cette expérience, il consacra sa thèse de doctorat en 1955 au symbolisme de l’inceste royal dans les sociétés des Grands Lacs. Ainsi commença une période de plus de trois décennies durant lesquelles il ne revint plus sur ses r…
Luc de Heusch, anthropologue et cinéaste (1927 / 2012)
Luc de Heusch compte parmi les fondateurs de l’anthropologie sociale en Belgique. Il analyse, selon une démarche comparative, les transformations structurales à l’œuvre dans les systèmes symboliques et sociaux des sociétés de l’Afrique subsaharienne, adoptant une attitude de dialogue avec les spécialistes d’autres régions du monde et d’autres disciplines. Il est aussi un des pionniers de l’anthropologie visuelle. Né dans un milieu bourgeois, il r…
Ethnic Performance and the State in Laos: The Boun Greh Annual Festival of the Khmou
Following the 1975 revolution, the Laotian statesmen adopted a modernising discourse that targeted “backward” traditions as undesirable. But since the 1990s, authorities have mitigated this standpoint, distinguishing “good” from “bad” traditions according to their compatibility with the program of national development, and professing their will to (re)instate the former as suitable expressions of culture in a multi-ethnic nation. This is manifest…
Introduction: The Study of the State in Laos
SCOPUS: ed.j
Mobility and Stability in a Tai Vat Village (Laos)
This article explores how Tai highlanders experience mobility. The Tai Vat living in Houaphan Province, Laos, first fled Vietnam at the end of the nineteenth century, and again during the First Indochina War. They presently engage in migrations to rural areas of the Mekong Plain as well as to Vientiane, the destination favoured by Tai youth. They relate their current mobilities to their past experiences, and also to issues of ‘development’. Thoug…
AfricaMuseum reopening Tervuren, Belgium
The reopening in December 2018 of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA/MRAC), now also known as the AfricaMuseum, after five years of renovation (Fig. 1), has been a major event, not only in Belgium but way beyond its borders. Given the world wide celebrity of this interdisciplinary institution with its extraordinary collection of historical artifacts, I have considered it essential to solicit multiple voices and views. The commissioning of …
Emerging public space in rural Laos
While urban settings stand at the forefront in discussions about public spaces in socialist East- and Southeast Asia, rural public spaces in the region have been hitherto largely unexplored. Drawing on two different upland cases from the northern part of Laos, this contribution identifies local vernacular public spaces on the one hand, and emerging state-connected public spaces on the other. The latter will be argued to comprise: (1) state-contro…
Our Lady of Congo: The Creation and Reception of an Early Missionary Propaganda Devotion
In 1891, the founder of the Matadi mission commissioned a master sculptor in Ghent to create a neo-gothic Madonna and child with a kneeling, imploring African released from the shackles of slavery at the Virgin’s feet. “Our Lady of Congo” was expected by its creators to become the tutelary figure of the new colony. In Belgium, it was successfully used as missionary propaganda, notably by the Society for Congolese Children, a pious association set…
Public spaces in late socialist East Asia: Interactions, performativity, citizenship
Prologue Picture a small, white-brick-walled café with bossa nova playing in the background, only a stone’s throw away from Shanghai’s famous shopping area Nanjing Road. Two elder women enter. From their enthusiastic tone and unembarrassed, loud voices as they interact with the staff, one can tell that they might be regulars, and most likely Shanghai-born. One of them orders a takeaway coffee, and shortly after, Fei, a rural migrant in his mid-tw…
Political propaganda in Northeast and Southeast Asia: Seminar series on “State and Society in East Asia”, February‐May 2023, Université Libre de Bruxelles
The seminar series featured contributions focused on China, Japan, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand, with the aim of understanding how large-scale communication campaigns are organized (or were organized in the recent past) to influence local audiences and increase their engagement with current policies and ideologies. With the authoritarian turn and the militaristic developments occurring in much of East and Southeast Asia, addressing this topic seem…
Anthropology & Photography: Introduction
The goal of this special issue of Civilisations is to explore the relationship between the anthropological project of understanding humankind and the practice of photography, in a continuation of the long-standing debate begun in the Anglophone world and continued more recently, in the Francophone world, by the journals Ethnologie française (2007) and Gradhiva (2018). Adopting a landscape format in full colour for the occasion to give visual cont…
Anthropologie & photographie: Introduction
Explorer les relations entre le projet anthropologique de compréhension de l’humain et la démarche photographique : telle est l’ambition de ce dossier de Civilisations, qui prolonge ainsi la réflexion buissonnante entamée de longue date dans le champ anglophone et prolongé plus récemment, du côté francophone, par les revues Ethnologie française (2007) et Gradhiva (2018). Adoptant pour la circonstance un format « à l’italienne » et tout en couleur…
Paul McBain, The Amulet Culture of Thailand: Journal of the Siam Society 112 (2), 2024, p. 7-154
Depuis une quinzaine d’années environ, les recherches sur la culture des amulettes en Thaïlande se multiplient. Ce dossier, publié dans le Journal of the Siam Society, est le fruit du premier colloque tenu sur le sujet, en juin 2023 à l’Université Thammasat de Bangkok.Les recherches sur la religion en Thaïlande se sont généralement concentrées sur l’étude du Bouddhisme des élites, considéré à partir des textes, éclipsant de ce fait certaines prat…
Art (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · History (7 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works)