Marie Lecomte-Tilouine

Understanding prisons’ inner organisation: An ethnographic study in Nepal

The fact that voices of the prisoners are absent in the few studies devoted to prison life in Nepal is no doubt related to the difficulty of conducting inquiries in such a context, which strongly limits our understanding of prisons. This article seeks to portray the functioning of prisons in Nepal from the inside, through the inmates’ narratives. It addresses the prison’s inner organisation and the role of ‘convict officers’. It is based on a study conducted in 2012 and 2013 with convicted male and female inmates belonging to different castes as well as the discussions with the staff of the prison administration, the prison directors and the police.

Une histoire de corsage et d’otages ou comment on enquête sur la « Guerre du Peuple » au Népal

L’objectivite a perdu ses lettres de noblesse, en anthropologie comme dans l’ensemble des sciences humaines. Toutefois, la prise de conscience d’une subjectivite inherente a tout exercice intellectuel s’est accompagnee, en ce qui concerne l’anthropologie, d’une critique de la relation de pouvoir dans le cadre de laquelle est nee et s’est inscrite la discipline, ainsi que d’une denonciation de nombre de ses procedes douteux, pour porter atteinte a sa credibilite meme. Il en a decoule un mouvem...