Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
I am now a doctor in cultural anthropology. My thesis is finished, and I am looking forward to pursuit my scientific career. My field of anthropology is inspired by the phenomenology branch of philosophy and an anthropology of the senses. The object of my research is about the practitioners activities of two specific consciousness practices : "La Trame", a French therapeutic tool, which invite the patients to change their lives, by a hand posing technic by the tramist, who is connecting what he considers his own "Trame" (loom in English), to the one of the patient. This therapeutic is based on a representation system of the body, based itself on the tradition of the French alchemy. This practice is mixed in the life of the practitioners we met, on our field of research, by a second one : the Zhineng Qigong. Unlike the Trame, the ZNQG is a Chinese Qigong which appeared in the 80s in China, and it is a personal practice of auto-healing, and auto life changer. Those two practices are considered by the protagonists of our study as similar in many aspects. Indeed, the practitioners who know both of them are making connections between them from their sensible experience. The symbolic of those disciplines are linked by the practitioners themselves, and the principal common point they make is about the alchemist principals they found in both of them; as the principal of transmutation, and the link the alchemist, from orient or occident is creating between his inside world and his outside world. Before going to study anthropology, I was a musician. I am playing drums, percussion instruments from the African continent, as Djembe, but also the Darbuka from noth of Africa. However, my speciality in music is the industany percussion the Tabla, which I learned with the grand master "Pandit" Shakar Ghosh since my thirteen years old, and for several years in France. Since my master died, I consider myself as his disciple. The Qigong which I am studying for my PhD is a practice following year of my personal practice of inner Chinese martial arts, as Da Cheng Quan, and some form of Taiji I studied with Marc Gutekunst for many years. I can speak different languages, French is my native speaker language, and my scientific writing language as well. But I am fluent in English, I can speak Portuguese and I have some base in mandarin, because I spent two year living there and teaching French to Chinese students.
"Researcher"
Chercheur associé à EVS, UMR 5600 EVS-CTT
Enseignement de CM : Histoire des savoirs L1, Le naturel et l'artificiel L2 et Savoir et croire L3