Françoise Héritier

by Gérald Gaillard

Overview

"A great intellectual figure, Franðcoise Hâeritier succeeded Claude Lâevi-Strauss as the Chair of Anthropology at the Colláege 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"--

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800733329
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	01/14/2022
Series:	Anthropology's Ancestors , #3
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Gérald Gaillard is an anthropologist and author born in Bouaké (Ivory Coast). His work includes The Routledge Dictionary of Anthropologists (Routledge, 2004); he has conducted research in Guinea-Conakry and Guinea-Bissau.

Table of Contents

Foreword: The Gaze of Françoise Héritier
Michelle Perot

Preface

Chapter 1. The Young Woman and the Young People in Her Circle
Chapter 2. The Izard’s Africa and the Laboratory for Social Anthropology
Chapter 3. Kinship and Samo Ethnography
Chapter 4. Samo Ethnography and Working Out Kinship
Chapter 5. At the Collège de France
Chapter 6. Institutional Activities: Mitterrand II
Chapter 7. Complexities of Alliance, Incest of the Second Type and Spiritual and Milk Kinships
Chapter 8. Masculine/Feminine
Chapter 9. Socialist Activist
Chapter 10. Feminism and Fantasy

Selected Works by Françoise Héritier

References
Index

Editorial Reviews

“Gaillard has been able to manage the jugglery of bringing in social context and written ideas of a prominent French anthropologist through her life and works in a very dense and meaningful manner yet very briefly. This may actually be a work of art in itself for the brevity with which a large number of nuances and ideas are presented. For those who await the works of the French anthropologists to be presented in English, this may form a prelude, an incredibly valuable collection of the Who's Who of French Anthropology. A book worth keeping for any anthropologist and a significant contribution to the history of Anthropology in France.” • Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society

“Héritier was well-known in France and in Latin America but not much in the English-speaking world…His book here under review is a milestone in the history of anthropology. The imperishable place of Françoise Héritier in it is now secured.” • Cargo

“I read this intellectual biography of Françoise Héritier with great pleasure. Though highly regarded in France, she is not yet well known in English-language academic circles, but she certainly should be. This book will be a revelation to many anthropologists and feminist scholars.” • Adam Kuper, London School of Economics

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