ANTHROPOLOGIST

Maurice Godelier

1934 - Today

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Maurice Godelier (born February 28, 1934) is a French anthropologist who works as a Director of Studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. He is one of the most influential French anthropologists and is best known as one of the earliest advocates of Marxism's incorporation into anthropology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Godelier has received more than 107,394 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice Godelier is the 54th most popular anthropologist (down from 46th in 2019), the 3,797th most popular biography from France (down from 3,189th in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Anthropologist.

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  • 110k

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  • 50.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Maurice Godelier ranks 54 out of 93. Before him are Bill Mollison, Gilberto Freyre, Alfred Sauvy, Helen Fisher, Bengt Danielsson, and Andrey Korotayev. After him are Ralph Linton, Fei Xiaotong, Edmund Leach, Fiona Graham, Melville J. Herskovits, and Georges Balandier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Maurice Godelier ranks 265. Before him are Johnny Haynes, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Ronnie Drew, Luis Héctor Villalba, Otis Rush, and Phan Văn Khải. After him are Vladislao Cap, Murtaza Rakhimov, Nicholas Liverpool, Billy Paul, Tom Baker, and Paul Naschy.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Godelier ranks 3,797 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis de Freycinet (1779), Daniel Bensaïd (1946), Gaston Tissandier (1843), Jean Decoux (1884), Pierre Weiss (1865), and Jacques Dupont (1928). After him are Michèle Arnaud (1919), Marcel Balsa (1909), Antonin Mercié (1845), Jean-François Rewbell (1747), Jacques Simon (1941), and Maurice Schumann (1911).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In France

Among anthropologists born in France, Maurice Godelier ranks 8. Before him are Marc Augé (1935), Jacques de Morgan (1857), Pierre Clastres (1934), Marcel Griaule (1898), Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854), and Alfred Sauvy (1898). After him are Georges Balandier (1920), Philippe Descola (1949), Yves Coppens (1934), Marcellin Boule (1861), and Françoise Héritier (1933).

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