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Thibault Fontanari is a lecturer at UCLouvain University, Belgium, where he teaches anthropology. In his research, he is developing an ethnography of pathways at the crossroads of environmental anthropology, the anthropology of infrastructure, and oral literature. Fontanari received his PhD from UCLouvain University thanks to a doctoral fellowship from the National Fund for Scientific Research in Belgium (2013–2017), and pursued his research at Harvard University as a Fulbright visiting scholar and BAEF fellow in 2019 and 2020. At the Rachel Carson Center, he will be completing his current manuscript, which explores the relationship that herders and farmers of Karakoram have developed on their roads and describes the sensitive and symbolic relations they have formed with the pathways they have built.
RCC Research Project: Walking and Poetry as Ways of Dwelling: A Study with the Herders of the Karakoram Mountains, Pakistan
Selected Publications:
- “The Social Life of Pathways: Walking, Giving and Building in Shimshal Valley, Pakistan.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory (forthcoming).
- “Making Pathways while Walking and Singing in Shimshal Valley, Pakistan.” The World of Music (New Series) 8, no. 1 (2019): 87–104. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/225427.
- “Les architectures du don chez les habitants de la vallée de Shimshal du Karakoram au Pakistan.” Revue du MAUSS 52, no. 2 (2018): 347–358. https://doi.org/10.3917/rdm.052.0347.