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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
ABOUT ME
I am a French anthropologist, working as a postdoc in Germany. Originally a specialist of China, where I lived for over 2 years, I also do field research in Madagascar.
PHILOSOPHY
Achieve your dreams!
Rien n'est à rêver, tout est à vivre!
Interests
Social sciences, reading novels, writing, art, photography, discovering other ways of life and meeting people with different backgrounds and opinions to exchange, cycling, going out, have a walk in nature, read poetry, going to disco... I am also very much in sports. I am always on a bike, I practice Kungfu, and I swim every week. Always open to new experiences.
- fish
- arts
- writing
- poetry
- photography
- boating
- reading
- socializing
- cycling
- fishing
- sports
- swimming
- anthropology
- social science
Music, Movies, and Books
OK. I confess I am most of the time busy reading social sciences or philosophy stuff. But don't imagine it as snobbish or pedant. I am just fond of everything that helps me to think about life, to understand the way we live. And I am otherwise totally open to all the kinds of books, movies, games or experiences that give me other points of view on it...
About music, I love hip hop (the underground version of it), but I think I can appreciate almost everything. I love as well jazz, and I am open to things as diverse as classic, opera, soul or electro...
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Sleeping in a Tibetan house and being attacked by fleas? Having worked for 3 months as a French guy in a Spanish hotel in London and learned English with a very strange accent there? Attending Chinese weddings for my thesis research? Going to fish with local fishermen on a traditional wooden boat in Madagascar?
Teach, Learn, Share
My experience of life in China, the questions of the social construction of gender, sexuality and sentiments.
What I Can Share with Hosts
Few time, unfortunately, but kindness and a decent couch.
Countries I’ve Visited
Australia, Denmark, Hong Kong, Italy, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malaysia, Monaco, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United States
Countries I’ve Lived In
China, France, Germany, United Kingdom