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Born in Cambrai
Cambrai

Cambrai is a Communes of France in the Nord Departments of France in northern France. It is a Subprefectures in France of the department.Cambrai is the seat of Archdiocese of Cambrai whose jurisdiction was immense during the Middle Ages....
, France
France

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 in 1934, Maurice Godelier is one of the most influential names in French anthropology
Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and humanity in its totality. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, and the humanities. In Great Britain it was originally divided into physical anthropology and cultural anthropology, which itself was divided into archaeology, technology, ethnology and sociology ....
. Directeur d'études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

The ?cole des hautes ?tudes en sciences sociales is a France institution for research and higher education, a Grands ?tablissements. Its mission is research and research training in the social sciences, including the relationship these latter maintain with the Natural science and life sciences....
. Best known as one of the earliest advocates of Marxism
Marxism

Marxism is the political philosophy and practice derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Marxism holds at its core a Marxist analysis of Critique of capitalism and a theory of social change....
's incorporation into anthropology, he is also known for his field work
Field work

Field work is a general descriptive term for the collection of raw data. The term is mainly used in the natural science and social sciences studies, such as in biology, ecology, environmental science, geology, geography, geophysics, paleontology, archaeology, anthropology, ethnomusicology, linguistics, and sociology, although it is also used...
 among the Baruya
Baruya

The Baruya are a tribe in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. They have been studied since 1967 by anthropologist Maurice Godelier.The Baruya are characterized by a strong inequality between males and females; all their organizations, institutions, and myths present the male domination....
 in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands ....
 that spanned three decades from the 1960s to the 1980s.








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Born in Cambrai
Cambrai

Cambrai is a Communes of France in the Nord Departments of France in northern France. It is a Subprefectures in France of the department.Cambrai is the seat of Archdiocese of Cambrai whose jurisdiction was immense during the Middle Ages....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 in 1934, Maurice Godelier is one of the most influential names in French anthropology
Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and humanity in its totality. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, and the humanities. In Great Britain it was originally divided into physical anthropology and cultural anthropology, which itself was divided into archaeology, technology, ethnology and sociology ....
. Directeur d'études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

The ?cole des hautes ?tudes en sciences sociales is a France institution for research and higher education, a Grands ?tablissements. Its mission is research and research training in the social sciences, including the relationship these latter maintain with the Natural science and life sciences....
. Best known as one of the earliest advocates of Marxism
Marxism

Marxism is the political philosophy and practice derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Marxism holds at its core a Marxist analysis of Critique of capitalism and a theory of social change....
's incorporation into anthropology, he is also known for his field work
Field work

Field work is a general descriptive term for the collection of raw data. The term is mainly used in the natural science and social sciences studies, such as in biology, ecology, environmental science, geology, geography, geophysics, paleontology, archaeology, anthropology, ethnomusicology, linguistics, and sociology, although it is also used...
 among the Baruya
Baruya

The Baruya are a tribe in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. They have been studied since 1967 by anthropologist Maurice Godelier.The Baruya are characterized by a strong inequality between males and females; all their organizations, institutions, and myths present the male domination....
 in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands ....
 that spanned three decades from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Bibliography

  • Rationalité et Irrationalité en Economie – 1969 (2 volumes) (Rationality and Irrationality in Economics, London : NLB, 1972)


  • La production des Grands Hommes. Pouvoir et domination masculine chez les Baruya de Nouvelle Guinée, Ed. Fayard (1982). (The Making of Great Men. Male domination and Power among the New Guinea Baruya, Cambridge University Press, 1986). Prize of the French Academy.


  • L’idéel et le matériel, Ed. Fayard (1984). (The Mental and the Material. Thought, economy and society, Verso,1986).


  • L’énigme du don, Ed. Fayard (1996). (The Enigma of the Gift, Chicago, Cambridge; Chicago University Press, Polity Press, 1998).


  • La Production du corps. Approches anthropologiques et historiques and Le Corps humain, supplicié, possédé, cannibalisé. Texts collected and edited by Maurice Godelier and Michel Panoff. Amsterdam, Archives contemporaines (1998).


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