Session 3 - "Memory, Poetics, Hermeneutics" doctoral seminar

Éric Jolly
Anthropologist and director of research at the CNRS, is a member of the Institut des mondes africains (IMAF - EHESS/AMU/CNRS/EPHE/IRD/Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne). His research in the Dogon country, the flagship field of the Griaule school, has led him to work in part on the epistemology and history of French ethnology, in particular on the ethnographic missions of the 1930s in Africa, on the career and work of Marcel Griaule, on the uses of ethnographic archives and on worldwide representations of Dogon culture under the dual effect of globalization and the work of the Griaule school.

As part of the exhibition "Dakar-Djibouti (1931-1933): contre-enquêtes", he has more recently re-examined this famous expedition, studying the ways in which ethnographic objects were collected, the biases of their documentation and the relationships between French ethnographers and their African collaborators.

Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren since January 2015
Head of the ethnography section at the RMCA, Tervuren until 2014.
Chargée de recherches au Musée de Tervuren depuis 1979, dans la section d'ethnosociologie et d'ethnohistoire (jusqu'en 1993) puis dans la section d'ethnographie, jusqu'en 2014. Fieldwork in West Africa,
particularly in Côte d'Ivoire including Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal.
Curator of numerous exhibitions. Curator of numerous exhibitions.