CREDO (Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie)

Dousset Laurent

Statut: Associate Professor (Director of the CREDO)

Institution: EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)

Contact: laurent.dousset@pacific-credo.fr

CREDO
Maison Asie Pacifique
Université de Provence
3, place Victor Hugo
13003 Marseille - FRANCE

tel : 33(0)4 13 55 07 32

Domaines de Recherche

Australie, chasseurs-cueilleurs, parenté, organisation sociale, anthropologie cognitive, transformations sociales, First Nations, la personne et sa construction, Premiers Contacts en Australie

Terrains

1992-1994: French Alps (PIRE - CNRS), on relationship between the local population and wild alpine animals (cognitive anthropology, ethnozoology).
1994-2008: various fieldtrips in Australia, especially Western Desert and Alice Springs (shortest trip 3 weeks, longest trip 24 months) - (kinship, social organisation, social transformations etc.)

Current positions and function

- Associate Professor at EHESS
- Coordinator and developer of WP-D2 of the ECHO (European Cultural Heritage Online) - NECEP (Non European Components of European Patrimony) program: NECEP website.
- Member of AIATSIS (Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies)
- Member of AAS (Australian Anthropological Society)
- Member of ESfO (European Society for Oceanists)
- Director of the CREDO (since 01/2008)

- Coordinator and developper of WP-D2, ECHO (European Cultural Heritage Online)
   NECEP (Non European Components of European Patrimony) - NECEP.
- Coordinator and developper of ODSAS and ADAP,
   digitial archives and annotation, financed by TGE Adonis Voir ODSAS.
- Developper and owner of AusAnthrop, ressources and research in Aboriginal Australia.
- Developper and co-coordinator of Australian ARC Linkage project AustKin, database and linguistic mapping.

(Photo: avec Markilly Ellis à la conférence ESfO 2005, Marseille, photo Elfriede Hermann)

Cursus

1988-1989: Sciences économiques, Fribourg
1989-1993: Deug - Licence - Maitrîse: Paris V, Sorbonne
1993-1994: DEA: EHESS, Paris
1994-1999: PhD: EHESS, Paris (1999)
2000-2002: Postdoctoral Reserach Fellow: UWA, Perth, Australie
2003: ARC (Australian Research Council) Postodoctoral Research Fellow, Perth, Australie
2003- : Maître de Conférence (Associate Prof.) EHESS, Marseille