ANTHROPOLOGIST

Georges Balandier

1920 - 2016

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Georges Balandier (21 December 1920 – 5 October 2016) was a French sociologist, anthropologist and ethnologist noted for his research in Sub-Saharan Africa. Balandier was born in Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont. He was a professor at the Sorbonne (Université René Descartes, Paris-V), and is a member of the Center for African Studies (Centre d'études africaines [Ceaf]), a research center of the École pratique des hautes études (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Balandier has received more than 68,639 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Georges Balandier is the 60th most popular anthropologist (up from 63rd in 2019), the 4,100th most popular biography from France (down from 3,841st in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Georges Balandier ranks 60 out of 93. Before him are Maurice Godelier, Ralph Linton, Fei Xiaotong, Edmund Leach, Fiona Graham, and Melville J. Herskovits. After him are Jack Goody, Arjun Appadurai, Johann Carl Fuhlrott, Philippe Descola, Max Gluckman, and George Murdock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Georges Balandier ranks 280. Before him are Ross Martin, Fedora Barbieri, Benoîte Groult, Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, Bruno Ruffo, and Chushiro Hayashi. After him are Ehsan Yarshater, Rosemary Sutcliff, Helen Thomas, Richard N. Frye, Reginald Rose, and Olga Orozco. Among people deceased in 2016, Georges Balandier ranks 287. Before him are Edmonde Charles-Roux, Benoîte Groult, Jimmy Bain, William Trevor, Aurèle Nicolet, and Fritz Stern. After him are Akhtar Mansour, Pierre Aubert, Prince Buster, Nina Ponomaryova, James Joseph Dresnok, and Alexander Esenin-Volpin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Balandier ranks 4,100 out of 6,770. Before him are Claude Nougaro (1929), Philippe Sarde (1948), Félicien David (1810), Arnaud Denjoy (1884), Olivier Marchal (1958), and Pierre-Louis Lions (1956). After him are Alice Milliat (1884), Jérôme Le Banner (1972), Jean Philippe (1931), Henri François d'Aguesseau (1668), Eugène Lanti (1879), and François Remetter (1928).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In France

Among anthropologists born in France, Georges Balandier ranks 9. Before him are Jacques de Morgan (1857), Pierre Clastres (1934), Marcel Griaule (1898), Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854), Alfred Sauvy (1898), and Maurice Godelier (1934). After him are Philippe Descola (1949), Yves Coppens (1934), Marcellin Boule (1861), and Françoise Héritier (1933).

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