Denis Vidal | |
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Born | [1] | July 4, 1954
Nationality | French [2] |
Occupation | Anthropologist |
Academic background | |
Education | Doctor of Philosophy |
Alma mater | Institut de recherche pour le développement |
Thesis | Le Culte des Divinités Locales dans une Région de l'Himachal Pradesh (November 1981) |
Doctoral advisor | Charles Malamoud |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Anthropology |
Sub-discipline | Social anthropology |
Institutions | Associate professor at the
School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences Research director at Institut de recherche pour le développement |
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]
Vidal completed his Ph.D. in 1983 at the EPHE and the University of Nanterre, under the supervision of Charles Malamoud , 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]
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]
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]
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]
OF WOOD AND WIND.Sustainable cargo ships in France and in India. DE BOIS ET DE VENT. Deux alternatives pour un transport maritime responsable Co-produit par l'IRD et l'ADEME, avec le soutien de l'Institut français de Pondichery
Vidal's Violence and Truth: A Rajasthani Kingdom Confronts Colonial Authority (1995) [note 1] 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]
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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).
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.
He worked in Himachal Pradesh in the 1980's and his Phd thesis (1989) is about the cult of local divinities in Himachal Pradesh.
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.
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)
Denis Vidal | |
---|---|
Born | [1] | July 4, 1954
Nationality | French [2] |
Occupation | Anthropologist |
Academic background | |
Education | Doctor of Philosophy |
Alma mater | Institut de recherche pour le développement |
Thesis | Le Culte des Divinités Locales dans une Région de l'Himachal Pradesh (November 1981) |
Doctoral advisor | Charles Malamoud |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Anthropology |
Sub-discipline | Social anthropology |
Institutions | Associate professor at the
School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences Research director at Institut de recherche pour le développement |
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]
Vidal completed his Ph.D. in 1983 at the EPHE and the University of Nanterre, under the supervision of Charles Malamoud , 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]
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]
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]
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]
OF WOOD AND WIND.Sustainable cargo ships in France and in India. DE BOIS ET DE VENT. Deux alternatives pour un transport maritime responsable Co-produit par l'IRD et l'ADEME, avec le soutien de l'Institut français de Pondichery
Vidal's Violence and Truth: A Rajasthani Kingdom Confronts Colonial Authority (1995) [note 1] 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]
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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).
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.
He worked in Himachal Pradesh in the 1980's and his Phd thesis (1989) is about the cult of local divinities in Himachal Pradesh.
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.
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)