Françoise Héritier / Gérald Gaillard ; translated by Andrew Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaillard, Gérald, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Anthropology's ancestors ; 3.

Anthropology's ancestors ; 3

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Héritier, Françoise.

Women anthropologists--France--Biography.

Women anthropologists.

Anthropologists--France--Biography.

Anthropologists.

France.

Feminists--France--Biography.

Feminists.

Anthropology.

Ethnology.

Kinship.

Sex role.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 193 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2022.

Summary:

"A great intellectual figure, Françoise Héritier succeeded Claude Lévi-Strauss as the Chair of Anthropology at the Collège de France in 1982. She was both an Africanist, author of magnificent works on the Samo population, the scientific progenitor of kinship studies, the creator of a theoretical base to feminist thought and an activist for many causes. This book follows the path of her life, which had a lasting impact on a generation of French anthropologists and continues to this day"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword: The Gaze of Françoise Héritier / Michelle Perot

Preface

The Young Woman and the Young People in Her Circle

The Izard's Africa and the Laboratory for Social Anthropology

Kinship and Samo Ethnography

Samo Ethnography and Working-out Kinship

At the College de France

Institutional Activities: Mitterrand II

Complexities of Alliance, Incest of the Second Type and Spiritual and Milk Kinships

Masculine/Feminine

Socialist Activist

Feminism and Fantasy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Gaillard, Gérald. Françoise Héritier

ISBN:

9781800733329

1800733321

9781800733343

1800733348

OCLC:

1258782957

Publisher Number:

99989345280