Denis Regnier
Biographic Data
| ID | 511603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denis Regnier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denis |
| FAMILY NAME | Regnier |
| SIGNATURE | REGNIER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains (LAMC); Institut de Sociologie - Université Libre de Bruxelles Avenue Jeanne 44; 1050 Bruxelles Belgium |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2394-594X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Comparing Physical Activity Levels and Metabolic Quotients to Quantify the Physical Activity Transition in Rwanda
Objectives Although humans used to be physically active hunter‐gatherers and subsistence farmers, there has been a recent and ongoing global physical activity transition as billions of people adopt industrial lifestyles primarily in urban areas. In order to analyze how to quantify the magnitude of this physical activity transition in a natural experiment, we compared two different metrics of physical activity metabolism among intensive subsistenc…
Advancing Global Health Equity: The Role of the Liberal Arts in Health Professional Education
Much innovation has taken place in the development of medical schools and licensure exam processes across the African continent. Still, little attention has been paid to education that enables the multidisciplinary, critical thinking needed to understand and help shape the larger social systems in which health care is delivered. Although more than half of medical schools in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States offer at least one medi…
Family Violence and Social Change in the Pacific Islands
Family Violence and Social Change in the Pacific Islands
Restituer les règles de recrutement dans une sépulture collective: Les Marqueurs Génétiques À l'Épreuve
Au Néolithique de nombreuses communautés d’Europe occidentale rassemblent leurs morts dans des tombes collectives. Mais quel lien unit ces défunts ? La première hypothèse à tester est la potentielle parenté biologique. Le meilleur moyen pour l’approcher actuellement est la génétique. Mais aucune étude à ce jour n’a évalué la pertinence des marqueurs génétiques dans la restitution des règles de recrutement dans une tombe collective qui contient so…
Slavery and Essentialism in Highland Madagascar: Ethnography, History, Cognition
This book explores the prejudice against slave descendants in highland Madagascar and its persistence more than a century after the official abolition of slavery. 'Unclean people' is a widespread expression in the southern highlands of Madagascar, and refers to people of alleged slave descent who are discriminated against on a daily basis and in a variety of ways. Denis Regnier shows that prejudice is rooted in a strong case of psychological esse…
African Islands: Leading Edges of Empire and Globalization
Forever Slaves? Inequality, Uncleanliness and Vigilance about Origins in the Southern Highlands of Madagascar
In the southern highlands of Madagascar, Betsileo free descendants strictly avoid marrying descendants of slaves, whom they regard as ‘unclean people’. A close examination of the history of a slave descent group shows that the most serious difficulty faced by former slaves after abolition was not access to land but ritual uncleanliness, which prevented intermarriage with free people and led to the essentialisation of the now pervasive hierarchica…
The Needs of the Many Do Not Outweigh the Needs of the Few: The Limits of Individual Sacrifice across Diverse Cultures
A long tradition of research in WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) countries has investigated how people weigh individual welfare versus group welfare in their moral judgments. Relatively less research has investigated the generalizability of results across non- WEIRD populations. In the current study, we ask participants across nine diverse cultures (Bali, Costa Rica, France, Guatemala, Japan, Madagascar, Mongolia, Serbi…
Clean people, unclean people: The essentialisation of ‘slaves’ among the southern Betsileo of Madagascar
In this article I argue that among the southern Betsileo slave descendants are essentialised by free descendants. After explaining how this striking case of psychological essentialism manifests in the local context, I provide experimental evidence for it and discuss the results of three cognitive tasks that I ran in the field. I then suggest that slaves were not essentialised in the pre‐colonial era and contend that the essentialist construal onl…
Introduction: Taking up the cognitive challenge
The Place of Healers-Diviners (Ombiasa) in Betsileo Medical Pluralism
This article is concerned with the training and curing practices of Betsileo ombiasa (‘healers-diviners’), and their relationships with biomedical practitioners and Christian healers, in particular Fifohazana exorcists. We first give an account of what we think is characteristic in the process of becoming an ombiasa, highlighting in particular the role of ancestors and other spiritual entities. We then give a brief description of the ombiasa’s he…
Youth gangs and street children: Culture, nurture and masculinity in Ethiopia , by Heinonen, Paula
Pourquoi ne pas les épouser: L’évitement du mariage avec les descendants d’esclaves dans le sud Betsileo (Madagascar)
Pourquoi les descendants de « roturiers » (olompotsy) du sud des Hautes Terres centrales de Madagascar refusent-ils systématiquement de se marier avec des descendants d’« esclaves » (andevo) ? Pour tenter de répondre à cette question, l’auteur s’intéresse à des descendants d’esclaves de cette région, appelés les Berosaiña, qui possèdent des terres et des tombes ancestrales et qui mènent une existence assez comparable à celle des olompotsy sauf qu…
Slavery and Essentialism in Highland Madagascar: Ethnography, History, Cognition
This book explores the prejudice against slave descendants in highland Madagascar and its persistence more than a century after the official abolition of slavery. 'Unclean people' is a widespread expression in the southern highlands of Madagascar, and refers to people of alleged slave descent who are discriminated against on a daily basis and in a variety of ways. Denis Regnier shows that prejudice is rooted in a strong case of psychological esse…
Pourquoi ne pas les épouser: L’évitement du mariage avec les descendants d’esclaves dans le sud Betsileo (Madagascar)
Pourquoi les descendants de « roturiers » (olompotsy) du sud des Hautes Terres centrales de Madagascar refusent-ils systématiquement de se marier avec des descendants d’« esclaves » (andevo) ? Pour tenter de répondre à cette question, l’auteur s’intéresse à des descendants d’esclaves de cette région, appelés les Berosaiña, qui possèdent des terres et des tombes ancestrales et qui mènent une existence assez comparable à celle des olompotsy sauf qu…
Forever Slaves? Inequality, Uncleanliness and Vigilance about Origins in the Southern Highlands of Madagascar
In the southern highlands of Madagascar, Betsileo free descendants strictly avoid marrying descendants of slaves, whom they regard as ‘unclean people’. A close examination of the history of a slave descent group shows that the most serious difficulty faced by former slaves after abolition was not access to land but ritual uncleanliness, which prevented intermarriage with free people and led to the essentialisation of the now pervasive hierarchica…
The Needs of the Many Do Not Outweigh the Needs of the Few: The Limits of Individual Sacrifice across Diverse Cultures
A long tradition of research in WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) countries has investigated how people weigh individual welfare versus group welfare in their moral judgments. Relatively less research has investigated the generalizability of results across non- WEIRD populations. In the current study, we ask participants across nine diverse cultures (Bali, Costa Rica, France, Guatemala, Japan, Madagascar, Mongolia, Serbi…
The Place of Healers-Diviners (Ombiasa) in Betsileo Medical Pluralism
This article is concerned with the training and curing practices of Betsileo ombiasa (‘healers-diviners’), and their relationships with biomedical practitioners and Christian healers, in particular Fifohazana exorcists. We first give an account of what we think is characteristic in the process of becoming an ombiasa, highlighting in particular the role of ancestors and other spiritual entities. We then give a brief description of the ombiasa’s he…
Youth gangs and street children: Culture, nurture and masculinity in Ethiopia , by Heinonen, Paula
Pourquoi ne pas les épouser: L’évitement du mariage avec les descendants d’esclaves dans le sud Betsileo (Madagascar)
Pourquoi les descendants de « roturiers » (olompotsy) du sud des Hautes Terres centrales de Madagascar refusent-ils systématiquement de se marier avec des descendants d’« esclaves » (andevo) ? Pour tenter de répondre à cette question, l’auteur s’intéresse à des descendants d’esclaves de cette région, appelés les Berosaiña, qui possèdent des terres et des tombes ancestrales et qui mènent une existence assez comparable à celle des olompotsy sauf qu…
Clean people, unclean people: The essentialisation of ‘slaves’ among the southern Betsileo of Madagascar
In this article I argue that among the southern Betsileo slave descendants are essentialised by free descendants. After explaining how this striking case of psychological essentialism manifests in the local context, I provide experimental evidence for it and discuss the results of three cognitive tasks that I ran in the field. I then suggest that slaves were not essentialised in the pre‐colonial era and contend that the essentialist construal onl…
Introduction: Taking up the cognitive challenge
The Needs of the Many Do Not Outweigh the Needs of the Few: The Limits of Individual Sacrifice across Diverse Cultures
A long tradition of research in WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) countries has investigated how people weigh individual welfare versus group welfare in their moral judgments. Relatively less research has investigated the generalizability of results across non- WEIRD populations. In the current study, we ask participants across nine diverse cultures (Bali, Costa Rica, France, Guatemala, Japan, Madagascar, Mongolia, Serbi…
African Islands: Leading Edges of Empire and Globalization
Forever Slaves? Inequality, Uncleanliness and Vigilance about Origins in the Southern Highlands of Madagascar
In the southern highlands of Madagascar, Betsileo free descendants strictly avoid marrying descendants of slaves, whom they regard as ‘unclean people’. A close examination of the history of a slave descent group shows that the most serious difficulty faced by former slaves after abolition was not access to land but ritual uncleanliness, which prevented intermarriage with free people and led to the essentialisation of the now pervasive hierarchica…
Slavery and Essentialism in Highland Madagascar: Ethnography, History, Cognition
This book explores the prejudice against slave descendants in highland Madagascar and its persistence more than a century after the official abolition of slavery. 'Unclean people' is a widespread expression in the southern highlands of Madagascar, and refers to people of alleged slave descent who are discriminated against on a daily basis and in a variety of ways. Denis Regnier shows that prejudice is rooted in a strong case of psychological esse…
Restituer les règles de recrutement dans une sépulture collective: Les Marqueurs Génétiques À l'Épreuve
Au Néolithique de nombreuses communautés d’Europe occidentale rassemblent leurs morts dans des tombes collectives. Mais quel lien unit ces défunts ? La première hypothèse à tester est la potentielle parenté biologique. Le meilleur moyen pour l’approcher actuellement est la génétique. Mais aucune étude à ce jour n’a évalué la pertinence des marqueurs génétiques dans la restitution des règles de recrutement dans une tombe collective qui contient so…
Family Violence and Social Change in the Pacific Islands
Family Violence and Social Change in the Pacific Islands
Advancing Global Health Equity: The Role of the Liberal Arts in Health Professional Education
Much innovation has taken place in the development of medical schools and licensure exam processes across the African continent. Still, little attention has been paid to education that enables the multidisciplinary, critical thinking needed to understand and help shape the larger social systems in which health care is delivered. Although more than half of medical schools in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States offer at least one medi…
Comparing Physical Activity Levels and Metabolic Quotients to Quantify the Physical Activity Transition in Rwanda
Objectives Although humans used to be physically active hunter‐gatherers and subsistence farmers, there has been a recent and ongoing global physical activity transition as billions of people adopt industrial lifestyles primarily in urban areas. In order to analyze how to quantify the magnitude of this physical activity transition in a natural experiment, we compared two different metrics of physical activity metabolism among intensive subsistenc…
Sociology (8 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 works) · Ethnology (4 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Cultural (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)