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Individuals who have sometimes never written or drawn, who have probably never even imagined doing so before going to such and such a place, come to express themselves on unusual supports, rock, wall or tree, according to a language that is both personal to them and very dependent on the group to which they belong during the time of their passage through the site. Who are they and what are the elements that justify their actions? The reasons most frequently invoked are idleness which would push them to "occupy their hands" or a will to appropriate the places by marking them with their name: to mean precisely that they frequented these places. Would the graffiti be a coherent group of motives for which the human motivations would be recurrent? This is unlikely and the nine fields presented in this book are rather likely to consider the variability of the logics that lead to the graphic act.
About the author
Philippe Hameau es antropólogo en la Universidad de la Costa Azul (Niza). Su trabajo se centra en los actos gráficos desde la prehistoria hasta la actualidad: explicando la variabilidad de los corpus iconográficos a través del estudio de su contexto social, cultural e ideal, e investigando las reglas que atraviesan el acto gráfico, independientemente de su ambiente cultural.
