Book Launch of 'Ce que les humains font avec la vie' (What humans do to life)
What Humans Do with Life

How can we coexist with living beings in increasingly degraded ecological environments? How can we create living conditions that reduce inequalities between human lives and promote a better quality of life? How can we make responsible use of biotechnologies? How can we harmonize the diverse relationships human societies maintain with the world, taking into account their ties to various living environments? These four interconnected questions are linked to a central issue of our time: how do we live on planet Earth?

At the crossroads of the biological and the social, these questions extend beyond disciplines like ecology and biology. They lie at the core of a rapidly expanding field: the anthropology of life. Across the globe, humans perceive life as a force that shapes living beings, producing effects—growth, reproduction, aging, and death—on their bodies. From a comparative perspective, this book highlights how ethnographic research helps us better understand the ways societies organize themselves around this force and the inherent fragility of human life that depends on it.
Date: 28 April 2025, 16:00
Venue: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Speakers: Perig Pitrou (MFO), Michael Drolet (Worcester College, Oxford), Rosalie Allain (University of Oxford), David Gellner (All Souls College, Oxford)
Organising department: Maison Française d'Oxford
Organiser: Michael Drolet (Worcester College, Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: communications@mfo.ac.uk
Part of: Maison Française d'Oxford Events
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Editor: Anne-Sophie Gabillas