Laurent Dousset

Laurent Dousset is an anthropologist trained at the EHESS in France where he submitted his PhD in 1999 under the supervision of Maurice Godelier. After his studies, he was enrolled as a postdoctoral fellow and then as an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Western Australia, before returning to France where has been professor of anthropology from 2002 to 2022. He is now and independent researcher, but also lectures at the University of Lucerne in Switzerland.

Working since 1994 on Australian Aboriginal cultures, he is particularly interested in kinship, social organisation and social transformations, as well as conceptions and issues of land tenure and inter-cultural relationships. Since 2008, he is also working on Vanuatu in the domain of land issues and disputes, ethnohistory and sorcery.

His most recent extended work is on Uncertainty and Risk perception, as well as on Deep Historical Methodologies in the Pacific.