Françoise Héritier

Françoise Héritier (15 November 1933 – 15 November 2017) was a French anthropologist, ethnologist, and feminist. She worked at the Collège de France (Chair of Comparative Studies of African Societies from 1982 to 1998). Her work deals mainly with the theory of alliances and on the prohibition of incest.

She was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1990.

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