English summary: Marceau Gast was an imminent ethnographer, interested in particular in the strategies employed for survival in extreme habitats, from the deserts to the mountains. Ranging from the central Sahara to North Africa and southern France, his work contributed to research associating anthropologists, nutritionists, and biologists. The collected studies in this volume honor Gasts contributions and speak to the vast impact of his work. French description: Cet ouvrage, en hommage ... Marceau Gast, explore la ...
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English summary: Marceau Gast was an imminent ethnographer, interested in particular in the strategies employed for survival in extreme habitats, from the deserts to the mountains. Ranging from the central Sahara to North Africa and southern France, his work contributed to research associating anthropologists, nutritionists, and biologists. The collected studies in this volume honor Gasts contributions and speak to the vast impact of his work. French description: Cet ouvrage, en hommage ... Marceau Gast, explore la diversite et la richesse de l'oeuvre scientifique de ce chercheur au parcours original. Lait, grain, meules, coffres, saisons, geophagie, decors geometriques, sandales, salutations, etoiles, parente, alliance... L'enumeration des objets et des terrains auquels s'est interesse Marceau Gast ressemble ... un inventaire ... la Prevert, mais leur apparente disparite poursuit une interrogation fondamentale: comment survivre en milieu extreme? C'est en effet une coherence forte qui se degage des questions recurrentes posees par ce chercheur qui aimait la vie: quelles solutions materielles et immaterielles inventent les hommes pour se nourrir, se proteger, s'apparenter et construire leur societe dans des environnements particulierement hostiles comme la montagne ou le desert qui fut pour lui egalement une veritable ecole de vie. Le livre rassemble des contributions qui montrent les multiples facettes de l'itineraire, des terrains et des objets d'etude de ce chercheur original. Ethnologue, specialiste du monde touareg, Marceau Gast a ete un precurseur des etudes sur l'alimentation, les techniques et la culture materielle des Touaregs de l'Ahaggar (dans les annees 1960), avant de s'engager dans des thematiques d'anthropologie sociale: structures de parente, heritage, histoire et tradition orales. L'ethnologie du Sahara central n'a pas ete son unique horizon: ouvert ... la comparaison, il a mene des enquetes egalement en Kabylie, au Yemen, dans le Queyras et en Haute Provence et a participe ... de nombreux programmes interdisciplinaires associant ethnologues, prehistoriens, anthropologues, nutritionistes, biologistes. Ses nombreux ami(e)s et collegues, du Sahara, du CRAPE (Alger), du LAPMO, de l'IREMAM (Aix-en-Provence) et d'ailleurs ont voulu ... l'occasion de la rencontre organisee par Salem Chaker et Helene Claudot-Hawad les 14 et 15 mars 2011 ... Aix-en-Provence rendre hommage ... l'homme et au chercheur ... la carriere remarquable, par la profondeur de son ancrage dans un terrain, sa diversite et son ouverture aux disciplines connexes, son ouverture ... l'Autre et aux autres, notamment aux jeunes chercheurs qu'il etait toujours pret ... aider et ... conseiller.
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