Anthropologists and ethnologists of France, the tradition that joined sociology to the study of other societies, from the study of gift exchange and ritual to structural analysis of kinship and myth, and later to the anthropology of hierarchy, nature and power. A theorist belongs here when the cited article calls the person French. It excludes anthropologists writing from Britain and America. Members include founders of French ethnology as well as later fieldworkers among the Baruya of New Guinea and the Achuar of Amazonia.
French Anthropologists and Ethnologists
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Wikipedia: Marcel Mauss
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Marcel Israel Mauss (10 May 1872 - 10 February 1950) was a French sociologist and anthropologist known as the father of French ethnology.
Wikipedia: Louis Dumont
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Louis Charles Jean Dumont (French: [dymɔ̃] 11 August 1911-19 November 1998) was a French anthropologist.
Wikipedia: Maurice Godelier
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Maurice Godelier (born 28 February 1934) is a French anthropologist. He is known for his field work among the Baruya in Papua New Guinea from the 1960s to the 1980s, and became one of the earliest advocates of Marxism's incorporation into anthropology.
Wikipedia: Philippe Descola
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Philippe Descola, FBA (born 19 June 1949) is a French anthropologist noted for studies of the Achuar, one of several Jivaroan peoples, and for his contributions to anthropological theory.
Pierre Clastres (Wikipedia)
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Pierre Clastres (17 May 1934-29 July 1977) was a French anthropologist, ethnographer, and ethnologist.
Encyclopedia.com (Encyclopedia of World Biography): Claude Gustave Levi-Strauss
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The French social anthropologist Claude Gustave Lévi-Strauss (born 1908) became a leading scholar in the structural approach to social anthropology.
Encyclopedia.com: Arnold Van Gennep
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French anthropologist, was born in Ludwigsburg, Germany, his father a descendant of French emigrants.
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