Olivier Kyburz
Domaines de recherche
Parcours universitaire et professionnel
[English version below]
Olivier Kyburz mène des recherches dans la Moyenne Vallée du Sénégal (Foûta-Tôro) en milieu peul et haalpulaar (litt. poularophone ou personne parlant la langue peule sans avoir le staut de peul). Depuis plusieurs années, ses recherches se sont concentrées sur le domaine de la parenté, par la constitution de corpus généalogiques.
Il participe depuis plusieurs années aux travaux du groupe TIP (traitement informatique de la parenté) et administre le site www.kintip.net
Il a été porteur du projet ANR Kinsources, une plateforme collaborative pour le partage des données de parenté : www.kinsources.net
Olivier Kyburz conducts research in the Senegal Middle Valley (Foûta-Tôro), in Fulani and haalpulaar (people who speak Pulaar, the Fulani language, but who are not themselves Fulani) regions. For several years, his research has concentrated on kinship, primarily by creating a genealogical body of research.
He has participated, over the course of the last several years, in the work of the TIP group (kinship computer processing) and administers the website www.kintip.net.
He also contributes to the ANR Kinsources project, a collaborative platform for sharing kinship data: www.kinsources.net.
Marcel Mauss is a French intellectual who played a determining role in the institutional development of ethnology in his country and whose name remains strongly attached to the Essay on the Don which is undoubtedly his best-known study today and which has perhaps partially obscured a part of the work that he weaved with psychology, in which Mauss's conception of the human is revealed more precisely. If the person concerned himself has always claimed to be sociologist, his intellectual training includes important philological and linguistic aspects as well as an opening to psychology through the initial teaching of Léon Marillier, founder of the Société de psychology of which Mauss was president in 1924.