Who are we ?
Our members are French, English, Italian or Spain researchers, archaeologists or ethnologists, entrepreneurs or consultants, institutional representatives, mountain guides, all concerned by shepherds’ cultures, agriculture from the Mediterranean sea or the Middle East region.
Our honorary members
Pierre Bonte : anthropologist, emeritus director of Research (CNRS), Emeritus of Social Anthropology lab college of France at the EHESS
Didier Gazagnadou : anthropologist, member of the Research Network "comparative anthropology of Muslim societies" of Social Anthropology Laboratory, College of France
Our founding members
Social Anthropology at the Collège de France, EHESS
Boris James : historian, professor of history of the medieval Middle East to INALCO
Ethnology department Haute-Provence (Salagon)
Natural History (MNHN), director of the CNRS team
specialized in pastoralism of Anatolie and above Kurdish populations
Paul Iordanow : director general of ALP'S INTERNATIONAL DEV (Network consultant)
Rémi Berthon : archaeozoologist at the National Museum of Natural History, MNHN
Robin Bendrey : archaeozoologist at the University of Reading in England