Emeritus research director at CNRS, Doctor Honoris Causa (Humanities) at Ateneo de Manila University, Nicole Revel is a linguist and ethnologist. During her numerous stays between 1970 and 2015, she implemented at different levels, Structural Analysis and Pragmatics, while following the development of multimedia technologies. She collected and analyzed the language, knowledge about nature, representations of the phenomenal world and artistic expressions of the Montagnards. She is currently a member of the Eco-Anthropology and Ethnobiology Unit at the Musée de l'Homme (MNHN) in Paris.