Denis Vidal Explained

Denis Vidal
Birth Date:4 July 1954[1]
Nationality:French[2]
Occupation:Anthropologist
Education:Doctor of Philosophy
Alma Mater:Institut de recherche pour le développement
Thesis Title:Le Culte des Divinités Locales dans une Région de l'Himachal Pradesh
Thesis Year:November 1981
Discipline:Anthropology
Sub Discipline:Social anthropology

Denis Vidal (born 4 July 1954) is a French anthropologist with a doctorate degree from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and the Université de Nanterre. He is an associate professor at the EHESS School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and a senior research fellow (Directeur de recherche) at the Institut de recherche pour le développement.[3]

Education and career

Vidal completed his Ph.D. in 1983 at the EPHE and the University of Nanterre, under the supervision of, with a doctoral thesis titled 'Le Culte des Divinités Locales dans une Région de l'Himachal Pradesh (The Cult of Local Divinities in a Region of Himachal Pradesh)'.[4] [5]

Research

Vidal is a social anthropologist.[3] He is serving as a research director at the Institut de recherche pour le développement,[6] [7] and as the assistant director at the Paris branch of the Migrations and Society Research Unit (URMIS).[8]

Vidal has been exploring India since his doctoral studies. Some of his research works on India include the "archival exploration" of Sirohi State and his studies on the "economic organisation of the bazaar", the social and religious anthropology of the Himalayas, and "visual culture of the old city of Delhi".[9] He delved into the disputed contest over the patent rights of Basmati rice between India and the United States.[10] Vidal has also explored "new ways of approaching technology from an anthropological perspective".[3] In 2019, Vidal, along with D. Balasubramanian, carried out a study on the building of wooden cargo ships in India's Tamil Nadu.[9]

Berenson (Robot)

Vidal and Philippe Gaussier co-developed a "robot art critic" dubbed Berenson (after the art critic Bernard Berenson). Berenson can take note of the reactions of people to art works and employ its neural network to learn from their reactions in order to develop its own aesthetic preferences and to express them through facial expressions.[11]

Museum exhibitions

Vidal has been one of the curators of the exhibition Persona (Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, January - October 2016,[12] and of the permanent exhibition on robotics at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris (opening in April 2019) [13]

Films

OF WOOD AND WIND.Sustainable cargo ships in France and in India. DE BOIS ET DE VENT. Deux alternatives pour un transport maritime responsableCo-produit par l'IRD et l'ADEME, avec le soutien de l'Institut français de Pondichery

Written work

Vidal's Violence and Truth: A Rajasthani Kingdom Confronts Colonial Authority (1995) was a study of history of the Sirohi State, focusing mainly on the influence exerted by British values and legal system on politics and society in Sirohi during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, providing "a vivid picture of caste-specific protest repertory". Vidal's study shed light on the relationship between the rulers of Sirohi and the Jain merchants with regard to the "colonial idea of economy"; inquired into the relationship between violence and mutineers in Rajasthan and how it was "remade through the colonial encounter"; and explored the Gandhian thought in apropos of the British colonial laws in India.[14] [15]

for various reviews of this book, see Norbert Peabody [16],Christophe Jaffrelot,[17] Frank de Zwart,[18] Ajay Skaria Skaria(August 1999).[19] And for an indepth study of it see Lawrence Babb, 2004[20]

Works

Books authored

Books edited

Selected papers

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Denis Vidal . . Paris, France . 25 May 2021.
  2. Book: Quack, Johannes . Disenchanting India: Organized Rationalism and Criticism of Religion in India . illustrated . Composed 2011 . 2012 . 7–46 . . New York, USA . Johannes Quack . Object of Inquiry: Indian Rationalists, Modes of Unbelief and Disenchantment . https://books.google.com/books?id=55wFpydSZ8oC&pg=PA17 . 978-0199812608 . 2011005851 . 17 . Further articles that engage directly with the Indian rationalist movement were written by the French anthropologist Denis Vidal (1998) and the scholar of religion Nehring (2008)..
  3. Book: Arts and Aesthetics in a Globalizing World. Routledge. 2020. 978-1000189650. Kaur. Raminder. Raminder Kaur. London, UK. Notes on Contributors. 1155638013. Denis Vidal is a social anthropologist, a Senior Research Fellow at IRD (URMIS-Paris Diderot) and an Associate Professor at the Musée du Quai Branly and at Hautes études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. His current research focuses on visual culture and on new ways of approaching technology from an anthropological perspective.. First published 2014. Dave-Mukherji. Parul. 9.
  4. Web site: Inventaire des thèses de doctorat Trouvé à l'intérieur – Page 73 (1983) . Th . 3e cycle : Ethnologic : E.H.E.S.S. : 1983 . 951. VIDAL (Denis) . - LE CULTE DES DIVINITES LOCALES DANS UNE REGION DE L'HIMACHAL PRADESH: and he published it at the Institut Français de Recherche Scientifique pour le Développement en Coopération in 1988, Volume 38 . Denis . Vidal . November 1988 . . France . fr . 462316096 . 126554106 .
  5. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 29–30 . 2006 . French National Centre for Scientific Research (France); Social Science Baha (Nepal) . University of Cambridge, UK . 0943-8254 . Martin . Gaenzle . András . Höfer . Elvira . Graner . Michael . Hutt . David . Gellner . Ben . Campbell . Mark . Turin . Michael Hutt (academic and translator) . Mark Turin . 4 . Notes on Contributors . 6 . He worked in Himachal Pradesh in the 1980's and his Phd thesis (1989) is about the cult of local divinities in Himachal Pradesh..
  6. Web site: SÉANCE ANNULÉE / Mythes et Machines - Robotique et Intelligence Artificielle : Penser la Technologie Aujourd'hui . . Paris, France . 31 March 2020 . 25 May 2021.
  7. Web site: Journée d'Étude de la Chaire L'Humain au Défi du Numérique: Numérique et Diversité Culturelle . . Paris, France . 23 February 2017 . 25 May 2021.
  8. Web site: Staff . Migrations and Society Research Unit . France . 25 May 2021.
  9. Social Sciences Winter School in Pondicherry . 5th . Heritage, Communities, Sustainability: Methodological and Theoretical Approaches in Social Sciences Research . December 2019 . . Pondicherry, India . Bios of Trainers and Coordinators . 57 . He has been researching on India since his doctoral thesis on the worship of local deities in Himachal Pradesh. His works include an ethnohistorical exploration on a small kingdom of Rajasthan (Sirohi), an anthropology of feuds in the Himalayas, studies about local markets, the economic organisation of indian bazaars and the visual culture of the old city of Delhi. Currently, he is conducting research in collaboration with Dr. Balusubramanian (IFP-Pondicherry) on the artisanal construction of wooden cargo ships in Tamil Nadu..
  10. Book: Globalizing India: Perspectives from Below . Anthem South Asian Studies . illustrated . 2005 . 1–14 . Anthem . London, UK . Introduction . Jackie . Assayag . Christopher John . Fuller . Chris Fuller (academic) . 978-1843311959 . 2005031966 . 742639689 .
  11. M. A. . ROVER: The Reactive Observant Vacuous Emotive Robot . Related Work: Robots in Media Arts – Contemporary Robotic Art . Hannah . Wolfe . July 2016 . University of California, Santa Barbara . Santa Barbara, California, USA . https://mat.ucsb.edu/Masters/Hannah_Wolfes_Masters_Thesis.pdf . 28 . Berenson, named after Bernard Berenson, is a robot art critic by anthropologist Denis Vidal and robotics engineer Philippe Gaussier. (see Figure 2.9) The critic observes viewers' reactions to art and learns what is "good" and "bad" art. Then he moves toward art works that are "good" and smiles at them, and frowns at "bad" art. This robot uses a neural network to learn. (Pangburn 2016).
  12. Web site: Persona, étrangement humain | Actes Sud.
  13. Laumond J.P., Vidal Denis, Boutin A.L. (ill.). (2018). Robots : le livre de l'exposition Robots : the exhibition book. [Paris] : Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, ISBN 978-2-86842-197-5.
  14. . 104 . 3 . November 1998 . 909–911 . . Reviewed Work: Violence and Truth: A Rajasthani Kingdom Confronts Colonial Authority . Frank . de Zwart . 10.1086/210095 . 10.1086/210095 . free.
  15. . 58 . 3 . August 1999 . 884–885 . . Anand A. . Yang . Ann . Walter . Anne . Walthall . JaHyun Kim . Haboush . Amrita . Basu . Barbara Watson . Andaya . Joan . Judge . Michael A. . Fuller . Nicola . Di Cosmo . Ann . Sherif . Mark . Peterson . William R. . Pinch . Indira Viswanathan . Peterson . Juliane . Schober . Anand Yang . JaHyun Kim Haboush . Amrita Basu . Barbara Watson Andaya . Joan Judge . Nicola Di Cosmo . Indira Viswanathan Peterson . 4 . Reviewed Work: Violence and Truth: A Rajasthani Kingdom Confronts Colonial Authority by Denis Vidal . Ajay . Skaria . 10.2307/2659188 . 2659188 . free.
  16. Violences et verites: un royaume du Rajasthan face au pouvoir colonialby Denis Vidal Review by: Norbert Peabody The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute DOI: 10.2307/3034949 Date: September, 1996
  17. Vidal (Denis). Violences et vérités. Un royaume de Rajasthan face au pouvoir colonial [compte-rendu] Christophe Jaffrelot Archives de sciences sociales des religions Année 1996 94 pp. 106-107
  18. de Zwart, Frank (November 1998). "Reviewed Work: Violence and Truth: A Rajasthani Kingdom Confronts Colonial Authority". American Journal of Sociology. University of Chicago Press. 104 (3): 909–911. JSTOR 10.1086/210095.
  19. Yang, Anand A.; Walter, Ann; Walthall, Anne; Haboush, JaHyun Kim; et al. (eds.). "Reviewed Work: Violence and Truth: A Rajasthani Kingdom Confronts Colonial Authority by Denis Vidal". The Journal of Asian Studies. Association for Asian Studies. 58 (3): 884–885. JSTOR 2659188
  20. Lawrence A Babb · 2004 · Myths of Identity and the Life of Trade in Western India Lawrence A Babb. Sage, New-Delhi
  21. Book: Le culte des divinités locales dans une région d'Himachal Pradesh. 9782709909358. 1988. Éd. de l'ORSTOM.
  22. 67 | 2017 Low Tech ? Wild Tech !. 10.4000/tc.8260. 2017. Techniques & Culture. 67. Grimaud, Emmanuel. Tastevin, Yann Philippe. Vidal, Denis.
  23. 67 | 2017 Low Tech ? Wild Tech !. 10.4000/tc.8260. 2017. 67. Techniques & Culture. Grimaud, Emmanuel. Tastevin, Yann Philippe. Vidal, Denis.
  24. Artifices et effets spéciaux. 10.4000/terrain.3948. 2006. Grimaud. Emmanuel. Houdart. Sophie. Vidal. Denis. Terrain. 46. 5–14. free.
  25. Web site: Manohar Books.
  26. Web site: Manohar Books.

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