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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 of Claude Lévi-Strauss at the Collège de France (Chair of Comparative Studies of African Societies from 1982 to 1998, now emeritus professor). 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 41,401 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Françoise Héritier is the 75th most popular anthropologist, the 4,300th most popular biography from France and the 11th most popular French Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Françoise Héritier ranks 75 out of 69Before her are Robert Lowie, Fiona Graham, Eric Wolf, Julio Caro Baroja, Marcellin Boule, and Dmitry Anuchin. After her are Vladimir Bogoraz, Carleton S. Coon, Adolf Bernhard Meyer, Grete Mostny, Hugh Falconer, and Napoleon Chagnon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Françoise Héritier ranks 357Before her are Levente Lengyel, Ela Bhatt, Muhamed Mujić, Celso Torrelio, Stan Brakhage, and Masae Kasai. After her are Marlene Ahrens, Robert Goulet, Tim Conway, Judah Folkman, Pedro Cubilla, and Severino Poletto. Among people deceased in 2017, Françoise Héritier ranks 383Before her are Rob Gonsalves, Terele Pávez, Daniel Viglietti, Barbara Hale, Vladimir Levenshtein, and Cormac Murphy-O'Connor. After her are Karl Stotz, Marco Coll, Osvaldo Fattori, August Ames, Robert Hirsch, and Julia Hartwig.

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In France

Among people born in France, Françoise Héritier ranks 4,300 out of 6,011Before her are Roger Ducret (1888), Lucien Michard (1903), Armand Massard (1884), Judith Godrèche (1972), Francis Biddle (1886), and Arsène Darmesteter (1846). After her are Sandrine Kiberlain (1968), Daniel Robin (1943), Jean Stern (1875), Yves Dreyfus (1931), Bernard Darniche (1942), and Mohamed Sissoko (1985).

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In France

Among anthropologists born in France, Françoise Héritier ranks 11Before her are Marcel Griaule (1898), Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854), Maurice Godelier (1934), Alfred Sauvy (1898), Georges Balandier (1920), and Marcellin Boule (1861).