Catherine Alès – Member-at-Large Candidate 2025
Catherine Alès
National Center for Scientific Research Center (CNRS) and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews
Member-at-Large Candidate 2025
Catherine Alès is Emeritus Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research Center (CNRS) and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. She is a member of a research center affiliated with the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. Her published work addresses many topics, including conflict, warfare and vindicatory systems of justice; rhetoric and ceremonial discourses; representations, rituals and shamanism; kinship and marriage alliance; sex distinction and gender; substances theory, procreation and co-paternity; body art and knowledge; naming and identity; conviviality, trust and mistrust. She has published also on health, education, the environment, Indigenous movements, autochthonous rights and political participation. She has done fieldwork in Northwestern Amazonia with the Yanomami since 1975 and with the Ye’kwana, Piaroa, Kurripako, and Hiwi of Venezuela as part of collaborative projects. She is author of Yanomami, l’Ire et le Désir(Karthala, 2006) and co-director of Sexe relatif ou sexe absolu? La Distinction de Sexe dans les Sociétés (MSH, 2001); Caminos Cruzados. Ensayos en Antropología Social, Etnoecología y Etnoeducación (IRD, 2003), Del Microscopio a la Maraca (Ex Libris, 1997) with J. Chiappino; and The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America. Bending and Breaking the Rules (UPF, 2017) with P. Valentine and S. Beckerman.ino; y The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America. Bending and Breaking the Rules (UPF, 2017) con P. Valentine y S. Beckerman.