Françoise Héritier / / Gérald Gaillard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Gaillard, Gérald,
• MitwirkendeR: Perrot, Michelle,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Anthropology's Ancestors ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

Follows the life of French anthropologist Françoise Héritier, who had a lasting impact on a generation of French anthropologists that continues to this day. A great intellectual figure, Françoise Héritier succeeded Claude Lévi-Strauss as the Chair of Anthropology at the Collège 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 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 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD: THE GAZE OF FRANÇOISE HÉRITIER -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1 THE YOUNG WOMAN AND THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN HER CIRCLE -- CHAPTER 2 THE IZARDS’ 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