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Francoise Heritier (Paperback)
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Francoise Heritier (Paperback)
Series: Anthropology's Ancestors
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Follows the life of French anthropologist Francoise Heritier, who
had a lasting impact on a generation of French anthropologists that
continues to this day. A great intellectual figure, Francoise
Heritier succeeded Claude Levi-Strauss as the Chair of Anthropology
at the College de France in 1982. She was 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. "I read this intellectual
biography of Francoise Heritier 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 From the Forword by Michelle
Perrot: I came to know her at the National Council for HIV, that
she chaired from 1989 to 1994.... Her theoretical concerns were
also crucial to the understanding of pandemics, but we did not then
realise that HIV/AIDS was also a precursor and a warning of
pandemics to come. She grasped the importance of conceptions of
bodily 'humours'-blood, semen, milk-that seemed to play a role in
the horrific spread of an epidemic of which we knew nothing, except
that it resulted in an appalling mortality rate, particularly among
young men.... she was a remarkable chair, concerned to share her
insights into the illness and to anchor-necessary-interventions
within a framework that would be respectful of human rights.
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