Françoise Héritier
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2022
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781800733343
Description: "A great intellectual figure, Franc ʹoise He ritier succeeded Claude Le vi-Strauss as the Chair of Anthropology at the Colle  ge 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"--