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School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

FacilityVillejuif, France
About: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences is a facility organization based out in Villejuif, France. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Politics. The organization has 1230 authors who have published 2084 publications receiving 57740 citations. The organization is also known as: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales & EHESS.


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15 Sep 2019
TL;DR: Support for convergence and synchrony was found in all three languages, although the level of support varied with the language, while the agreement in laughter type was found to be significant for the German data.
Abstract: Human verbal communication is a complex phenomenon involving dynamics that normally result in the alignment of participants on several modalities, and across various linguistic domains. We examined here whether such dynamics occur also for paralinguistic events, in particular, in the case of laughter. Using a conversational corpus containing dyadic interactions in three languages (French, German and Mandarin Chinese), we investigated three measures of alignment: convergence, synchrony and agreement. Support for convergence and synchrony was found in all three languages, although the level of support varied with the language, while the agreement in laughter type was found to be significant for the German data. The implications of these findings towards a better understanding of the role of laughter in human communication are discussed.

8 citations

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TL;DR: The dairy landscape of Senegal, a major regional importer of powdered milk, by considering development dynamics in light of the interactions between technical and organizational models and livestock systems, in terms of relationships with resources and environment, knowledge and social organization is presented in this article.
Abstract: Since the 1970s, the import of tax-free powdered milk has presented an easy solution to the growing demand for dairy products in West Africa. Recent increases in agricultural price volatility have since contributed to a renewed interest in local milk. However, while the present situation raises issues of food security, rural development and trade policy, public policy remains overly focused on the technical dimensions of dairy development. This article presents the dairy landscape of Senegal, a major regional importer of powdered milk, by considering development dynamics in light of the interactions between technical and organizational models and livestock systems, in terms of relationships with resources and environment, knowledge and social organization. Two implications are discussed: the need for effective sectoral policy to tip the balance in favor of local milk, and the need to base public action on a better understanding of, and improved support for, livestock systems in all their diversity.

8 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between the Maussian theory of the gift and the practice of serving rice to monks during their daily alms tour, the main form of religious donation.
Abstract: In this paper, the religious donation–meaning oriented interactions that occur between a lay donor and his or her monastic recipient or between laypeople and religious institutions as a whole–is first examined in the Burmese Buddhist context, in regard to the Maussian theory of the gift. The formal analysis of ‘serving rice’ to monks during their daily alms tour, the main form of religious donation, demonstrates that it is in keeping with the definition of a free gift rather than involving reciprocity, although it is supposed to be rewarded by merit through an impersonal process. Then, moving from a formal analysis of the ethnography of religious donation (ahlu) to the contextual analysis of the differentiated uses of various forms of giving in contemporary Burma, the discussion aims at highlighting differences with practices of ‘ritual offering’ (kadaw bwe) and ‘humanitarian aid’(ke hse yay) showing how these different forms of interaction shape contrasted fields of practice. The transaction occurring in religious donations then emerges as setting into motion a crucial social process, the enactment and reproduction of the difference in status between monastics and laypeople that is one of the main social processes contributing to the differentiation of a Buddhist-defined ‘religious field’.

8 citations

01 Oct 2009
TL;DR: The presente articulo reflexiona sobre la presencia of las Iglesias pentecostales in territorio mapuche utilizando testimonios de dos dirigentes a la vez espirituales y religiosos of this pueblo, que habitan la zona rural.
Abstract: El presente articulo reflexiona sobre la presencia de las Iglesias pentecostales en territorio mapuche utilizando testimonios de dos dirigentes a la vez espirituales y religiosos de este pueblo, que habitan la zona rural. Se propone ademas a la Iglesia evangelica como un nuevo centro de formacion de dirigentes politicos y religiosos, espacio eclesiastico desde el cual se construye un “Universo de verdad pentecostal”, desde el cual se vive e interpreta el entornocercano. El ritual del Nguillatun se presenta como el espacio por excelencia de la definicion yconstruccion de “lo mapuche” y como un espacio de tensiones entre los evangelicos y no evangelicos.Se exploran finalmente algunas continuidades entre el pentecostalismo y lamapuchidad en la actualidad.

7 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Philippe Aghion12250773438
Andrew J. Martin8481936203
Jean-Jacques Laffont8333232930
Jonathan Grainger7832919719
Jacques Mehler7818823493
James S. Wright7751423684
Thomas Piketty6925136227
Dan Sperber6720732068
Arthur M. Jacobs6726014636
Jacques Mairesse6631020539
Andrew E. Clark6531828819
François Bourguignon6328718250
Emmanuel Dupoux6326714315
Marc Barthelemy6121525783
Pierre-André Chiappori6123018206
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202318
2022134
2021121
2020149
2019119
2018118