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Center of Cultural Anthropology (CAC)

Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences | Institute of Sociology

(Code: ULB415)

► Soft as silk. Connecting talc-based and woven inspired decorated ceramics production in West Central Africa between the 2nd and 17th centuries CE. (2024-2025).

Fonds spéciaux de recherche.

Collaborative Research Project, Fondation Philippe Wiener – Maurice Anspach 
Olivier Gosselain (Promoteur) et Nicolas Nikis (Co-promoteur), ULB

M ...

► Bunkeya plurielle. Histoire et archéologie d’une capitale du 19e siècle au sud-est de l’Afrique centrale (2023-2025)

Autres fonds publics belges.

Académie de recherche et d’enseignement supérieur (Ares), Projet Amorce (2023-2025)

Promoteur ULB et coordonnateur : Nicolas Nikis

Promotrice ...

► Projet EMKP. Recording the knowledge of traditional potters from Vietnam: A Historical perspective (2021-2024)

Autres moyens financiers dépendant de l'étranger.

In Vietnam, the production of pottery vessels has undergone many changes over the last thirty years, due to the economic opening of the country. On the ...

► History from Things and Techniques: Crossing the Present and the Past in Central Africa (2021-2031)

Autres ministères fédéraux.

Projet FED-tWIN Prf-2019-056 -HisTech
Promoteurs : Olivier Gosselain, Alexandre Livingstone Smith; Chercheur : Nicolas Nikis

À l’Interface de l� ...

► BANTURIVERS - At a Crossroads of Bantu Expansions: Present and Past Riverside Communities in the Congo Basin, from an Integrated Linguistic, Anthropological and Archaeological Perspective

Autres U.E..

The “Bantu Expansion”, a research theme within the precolonial history of Central Africa, unites scholars of different disciplines. Much research i ...

► North African Rock Art Under new light : A palaeosociology of the last Hunter-Gatherers and first Pastoralists

Autres U.E. - Fonds propres (patrimoine).

In North Africa, hundreds of rock art sites located in desert areas testify to the occupation of the so-called ‘Green Sahara’, when palaeoenvironme ...

► From Seeds to Rags: Textile Production in Dendi and Borgou (North Benin)

Autres moyens financiers dépendant de l'étranger.

The project aims primarily at documenting cotton cloth production in North Benin, from cotton growing activities to thread production (ginning, carding ...

https://www.emkp.org/from-seeds-to-rags-textile-production-in-dendi-and-borgou-north-benin/

► DevInc – Locals dealing with Developmental Incomes. An updated approach combining Anthropology of Economics and Social Economy (West & Central Africa).

Fonds associés (toutes subventions, y compris la Loterie Nat.) - Actions concertées.

This research project focuses on Development Incomes (DI), namely on financial amounts drawn from the exploitation of natural resources and allocated t ...

https://anthropologieculturelle.ulb.be

► From Seeds to Rags: Textile Production in Dendi and Borgou (North Benin).

Autres moyens financiers dépendant de l'étranger.

Direction : Olivier Gosselain en collaboration avec Lucie Smolderen, Barpougouni Mardjoua  et Florian Vallée.
Commanditaire : British Museum

Le pr ...

► Locals dealing with Developmental Incomes: an updated approach combining Anthropology of Economics and Social Economy (West and Central Africa)

Fonds spéciaux de recherche.

This research proposal focuses on Development Incomes (DI), namely on financial amounts drawn from the exploitation of natural resources and allocated  ...

► ''Participatory mapping as a tool of good governance of the Yangambi Biosphere Reserve (Tshopo / DR Congo)''.

Programmes d'impulsion - Organisations internationales - Autres ressources extérieures.

► EACOM - 2015-2019 , « Egyptian and African Copper Metallurgy ».

Autres ministères fédéraux - Région bruxelloise.

EACOM is a four-year multidisciplinary research project on early and traditional copper metallurgy processes in Egypt and Sub-Saharan Africa.

► AfReSlide. Landslides in Equatorial Africa : Identifying culturally, technically and economically feasible resilience strategies.

Autres ministères fédéraux - Fonds spéciaux de recherche - Région bruxelloise.

The main objective is to develop an integrated and broadly applicable methodology for landslide resilience analysis in data-poor environments in Equato ...

► Political centralization, economic integration and language evolution in Central Africa : an interdisciplinary approach to the early history of the Kongo Kingdom

Fonds spéciaux de recherche.

KONGOKING is an interdisciplinary and interuniversity research group which aims at contributing to a better understanding of the origins and early hist ...

► CROSSROADS of empires : archaeology, material culture and sociopolitical relationships in West Africa

Autres U.E..

The project brings together a team of archaeologists, historians and anthropologists studying the Niger Valley where it borders Niger and Bénin (West  ...

http://www.sru.uea.ac.uk/research-crossroads.php