Les politiques ottomane et républicaine au Kurdistan à partir de la comparaison des milices Hamidiye et korucu : modèles institutionnels, retribalisation et dynamique des conflits
The parallel drawn between the militia established by the late Ottoman regime in the 1890’s, the Hamidiye, and the one established in the 1980’s, the korucu, is a commonplace of works on the Kurdish issue since the 1990s. The author aims to develop a more systematic comparison between both institutions. Addressing successively the issues of the internal organisation, the tribalisation of the resources, and the relationship with Kurdish nationalism, the author points out that both militia are fundamentally different. In particular, the Hamidiye is a military corps accumulating resources by predation, as opposed to the korucu, which are much more local units under state control, drawing resources from the state and contraband more than from predation.
Knowledge, ideology and power. Deconstructing Kurdish Studies
The idea for this issue arose out of a seminar we organised, together with Jean-Francois Perouse, in 2005-2006 at the Institut Francais d’Etudes Anatoliennes (IFEA) in Istanbul on the ‘Conditions of emergence of the Kurdish question within the Turkish academic field’. We noticed that since the 1990s there had been a growing interest among Turkish scholar on the topic of Kurds and Kurdish questions. Until this very recent period, speaking about Kurds was a genuine taboo in Turkish universities...
Aux sources de l’anthropologie économique
Maurice Godelier fut, en France, l’un des fondateurs de ce qu’on appelle l’anthropologie economique. Apres une agregation de philosophie, il s’etait donne une formation d’economiste aupres d’Edmond Malinvaud et de Charles Bettelheim, puis il fut assistant aupres de Fernand Braudel d’abord et de Claude Levi-Strauss ensuite. La revue Socio-anthropologie publie dans ce numero un extrait d’un article devenu un classique : « L’anthropologie economique », de 1971, tire d’un ouvrage aujourd’hui epui...