August 31, 2016

Master's thesis: Development, Biodiversity and Territory management, at Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris / France.

This study concerns stakes in the rehabilitation of human-powered pumps, part of the project "Drinking Water for Africa", which is conducted by Global Nature Fund (GNF).

In order to ensure the sustainability of these pumps and the empowerment of rural populations, local partners of the project (NGOs based in the field) plan social actions to implement a community-based management by the creation of village's committees.

Further to the realization of a two-month fieldwork in the Toura's villages, located in the 18 Montagne's region in western Ivory Coast, and three months internship at Global Nature Fund (GNF) in Bonn, the aim of this work is to understand the effects of human-powered pumps on the village social organizations and the study of rehabilitated pump management methods adopted by the villages in order to question the logic of NGO's actions.

Keywords: anthropology of development, community-based management, drinking water access, human-powered pumps, water management, village's communities

June 30, 2015

Master's thesis: Anthropology of environment, at Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris / France.

Bibliographic research: Examples of traditional natural resources management and the issues surrounding the recognition and legitimacy of TEK.

In the field of ecology, diverse studies have shown that, at the local level, the native groups and others traditional groups, from different geographical locations – from the Arctic to Amazonia – have their own interpretation of the ecological systems and resources management. Indeed, they know their forests, their soils, their deserts, and their lagoons having a wealth of experiences and outstanding diversified knowledge.

We could then think that if one does not try to understand how they apprehend what surrounds them, or immerse in their complex social environments, the attempts to set up collaborative projects tend to be ineffective.

Keywords: Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), resources management, ecological systems

October 31, 2012

Master's thesis: Anthropological cinema and Documentaries, at University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense.

Called at the university as a " Commentary of strategy ", is based on a fieldwork experience along the production of the documentary "Hawó, Karajá's canoe", a research among traditional canoe builder, living on the Bananal Island (Ilha do Bananal), in Brazil.

In one hand, this study shows the methodology used to be integrated as a researcher-documentarist among the Karajá's canoe builders. Moreover, it is focused on the challenge to follow the whole process of building a canoe along one-month fieldwork.

On the other hand, it aims to show how the elders handle the technic of its construction while the youth lose their interest in learning this traditional knowledge. Even though they still use canoes in their daily life, the younger generation prefers now a day to replace them for motorboats.

June 30, 2009

Bachelor's thesis: Social Communication, expertise in Audiovisual, at University of Brasília / Brazil

This study is based on the production of the documentary "In that time…".

Supported on the portray of Sr. Zeca Amorim - 93 years, this study contextualizes his life in a time that family farming, navigation, and small trade were the main subsistence and economic activities of an inside lands region, at the edge of the Tocantins River, county of Carolina, in Brazil. As a game between past and present, represented by oral memories and current images, this study approaches historical accounts with several actual cultural aspects of the society in which he was inserted.

Bearing in mind that this thesis was a final work of an audiovisual expertise, this work pretended to develop a discussion about the importance of audiovisual products as a tool to historical and anthropological scientific research.