Frederic Keck traces how the anticipation of bird flu pandemics has changed relations between birds and humans in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, showing that humans' reliance on birds is key to mitigating future pandemics.
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Frédéric Keck es un destacado antropólogo francés cuyo trabajo se centra en el estudio de las epidemias y su impacto social. Como Investigador Principal en el CNRS y Director del Laboratorio de Antropología Social en París, contribuye a una comprensión más profunda de las respuestas humanas a las crisis de salud. Sus publicaciones, incluida la coedición de un libro sobre la antropología de las epidemias, ofrecen valiosas perspectivas sobre las complejas relaciones entre las personas, las enfermedades y las estructuras sociales. La investigación de Keck enfatiza las dimensiones culturales y sociales de las epidemias, iluminando cómo estos eventos dan forma a nuestras vidas.
This book traces the contributions of the Lévy-Bruhl family to social and political thought and expertise in 20th-century France, shaping the anticipation of economic and health crises. How French Moderns Think tells the story of the French sociological tradition through four generations of the Lévy-Bruhl family: Lucien, who founded the Institute of Ethnology at the University of Paris; his son Henri, who founded the Institute of Roman Law; his grandson Raymond, who took part in the creation of the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies; and his great-grandson Daniel, a vaccine specialist at the Institute of Public Health. This family history casts a new light on the philosophical debates about “primitive mentality” and the “savage mind.” By drawing on the expert knowledge inherent in this family genealogy, the articulation between the logical and the “pre-logical” is not a cognitive question but rather a problem of anticipating unpredictable events. By relating Lévy-Bruhl’s engagements from the Dreyfus Affair to the Minister of Armaments during the First World War, Keck narrates the confrontation of the socialist ideal of justice and truth with the French colonial experience and its transformations in global technologies preparing for pandemics.