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Anthropology

• History of anthropology - a set of external links, with my comments, to give easy access to web-available documents.
• Extinguished Voices - Gillen and Spencer concentrated on the old men - but the young appear in their texts too, ducking and diving their way into the new society.
• Swallowing Stones - the anthropologist and the shaman. A look at how the relationship between magician and anthropologist has evolved, with particular reference to Malinowski and Chagnon.
  
• Incest & Frontiers - a look at how Spencer & Gillen and Malinowski tackled the question of incest.
• The Anthropologist's Eye for the Bushie Lubra - or what happened when Gillen asked his Aborigine maid to pose for a photograph.
• Spencer & Gillen & the primitive in Australia - two anthropological reputations in the balance.
• Chris Knight's 'Blood Relations' - a review.
• Of Lice & Men - or why we should be very grateful to our parasites. A satire on sociobiology.
• New Age Travellers and the Flight of the Dead - can the historian Carlo Ginzburg and the anthropologist Bertrand Hell help us analyse the Battle of the Beanfield?
• The concept of culture - a hypertextual essay. Written specifically for language-teachers but may be of wider interest.
• Effnography - a set of vignettes on (mostly) life in the Parisian suburb of Clichy
• Folk-tales - from NPG, Africa and Europe, with a rather sketchy attempt at the analysis of the Papuan tale of 'Miss Piggy'. I use these for language teaching.
• Culture and Childhood - outline of a course with links.

Sociology

• The Sociology of Deviance - an anthropological approach. Outline of a course given for the sociology department at the Université of Versailles St. Quentin.
• Juvenile Delinquency - set of lecture notes from a course given at the UVSQ.
• Measuring black crime - a short reaction to a posting by Philippe Rushton - a so-called 'scientific racist' - on Anthro-L.
• Reading Crime Rates ; perceptions of deviance - on the rise and fall of the 'New Criminology'.
• Elliot Currie on Crime - review of a book by the well-known American criminologist.
• Reading the riots - Ghost Riders and New Age Travellers - an analysis of the reactions in the British popular press to the 'Battle of the Beanfield'.
• Serial Killer ; Hannibal Lecter and Ted Bundy meet the sociologist - a look at the myth of the serial killer, including a reading of 'The Silence of the Lambs'.
• Hannibal ; a third layer - a set of notes towards a reading of Harris's 'Hannibal' - or 'Son of the Golden Bough'.
• Crime in Paris - some of the Effnography sketches look at crime & delinquency. There is one account of an afternoon in a police station, and a glimpse of police action in the streets of Clichy.

Literature & Art

• Charles Dickens et le phantasme panoptique - Foucault hitches a ride with Pickwick - in French.
• Angela Carter's English Verbs - from Present to Future and back again in 'The Bloody Chamber'. (This is a recent version of an older paper).
• Edwin Landseer's Drop of Blood - on the Victorian animal painter's difficulties with a portrait of the Royal Family - in French.
• 'A Crow in the Garden' - a short piece of my own fiction

Miscellaneous bits and pieces

• Edwin Chadwick is rather annoyed - an analysis of a letter to an unsatisfactory artisan - in French.
• Could Chomsky be Wrong? - this is a set of commented links pointing to alternatives to Chomsky's theory of language. It seems that it has been found useful by some linguists.

Language Teaching - main index

• Ecole primaire (primary school)
  • Conférences (in French)
  • Programme 20 heures
  • Programme 40 heures
  • Culture and Childhood - outline of a course with links.
• CAPES- courses in didactics & translation for teacher's certificate
  • Epreuve sur dossier
  • Thème
  • Gangsters in the USA (pour l'agrégation)
• Didactics & SLA for 3rd-year degree students.
  • Lectures - introduction to Second Language Acquisition, based on a critique of Stephen Krashen's Monitor Theory
  • Modules - set of learning programmes with external links.
  • Seminar programme - (fairly) down-to-earth practical stuff on how to run an EFL class.
  • Observation schedule - on writing the report on the in-school observation period.
  • FLTeach posts - some of the messages that I have sent to the list FLTeach over the years including :
    • a critical summary of Krashen's five hypotheses
    • a discussion of Lightbown's paper on an experiment with an 'input only' approach.
    • Culture & language teaching