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.
Frederic Keck Bücher
Frédéric Keck ist ein führender französischer Anthropologe, dessen Arbeit sich auf die Untersuchung von Epidemien und deren gesellschaftliche Auswirkungen konzentriert. Als leitender Forscher am CNRS und Direktor des Labors für Sozialanthropologie in Paris trägt er zu einem tieferen Verständnis menschlicher Reaktionen auf Gesundheitskrisen bei. Seine Publikationen, einschließlich der Mitherausgabe eines Buches zur Anthropologie von Epidemien, bieten wertvolle Einblicke in die komplexen Beziehungen zwischen Menschen, Krankheiten und sozialen Strukturen. Kecks Forschung betont die kulturellen und sozialen Dimensionen von Epidemien und beleuchtet, wie diese Ereignisse unser Leben prägen.
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.