ANTHROPOLOGIST

Françoise Héritier

1933 - 2017

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Françoise Héritier (15 November 1933 – 15 November 2017) was a French anthropologist, ethnologist, and feminist. She was the successor to Claude Lévi-Strauss to hold the chair of anthropology at the Collège de France, and held the inaugural chair of Comparative Study of African Societies from 1983. Her work dealt mainly with the theory of alliances and on the prohibition of incest, both theories based on the notion of exchange of women. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Françoise Héritier has received more than 43,825 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Françoise Héritier is the 81st most popular anthropologist (down from 73rd in 2019), the 4,806th most popular biography from France (down from 4,283rd in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Anthropologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Françoise Héritier ranks 81 out of 93. Before her are Dmitry Anuchin, Vladimir Bogoraz, Eric Wolf, Marcellin Boule, Ashley Montagu, and Carleton S. Coon. After her are Marilyn Strathern, Adolf Bernhard Meyer, Hugh Falconer, W. H. R. Rivers, Grete Mostny, and Napoleon Chagnon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Françoise Héritier ranks 423. Before her are Nicette Bruno, Lee Calhoun, Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili, Irina Beglyakova, Valéria Gyenge, and Franco Marini. After her are Jerry Falwell, William Blum, Dušanka Sifnios, Nikola Radović, Milly Scott, and Ann Richards. Among people deceased in 2017, Françoise Héritier ranks 435. Before her are Atanase Sciotnic, Rosa Taikon, Charlie Murphy, Eugène Parlier, Della Reese, and Peter Sarstedt. After her are Pancho Segura, Raúl Córdoba, Nicolae Lupescu, Kjell Grede, Laurynas Stankevičius, and Yuriy Poyarkov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Françoise Héritier ranks 4,806 out of 6,770. Before her are Henri Guérin (1905), Robert Mouynet (1930), Léon-Étienne Duval (1903), Raymond Bellot (1929), Yoann Gourcuff (1986), and Cédric Pioline (1969). After her are Charles Coste (1924), Paul Le Flem (1881), Charles Frédéric Girard (1822), Alphonse Areola (1993), Pierre Coffin (1967), and François Bonlieu (1937).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In France

Among anthropologists born in France, Françoise Héritier ranks 13. Before her are Alfred Sauvy (1898), Maurice Godelier (1934), Georges Balandier (1920), Philippe Descola (1949), Yves Coppens (1934), and Marcellin Boule (1861).

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