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The Sweetness of Life
"There is a form of lightness and grace in the simple fact of existence, regardless of occupation, of strong feelings, or of political commitments of any sort - and that is the only thing I have wanted to write about. About that little extra thing that is granted to all of us, a lust for life." So begins Francoise Heritier, in her exploration of the things in life worth living for, the moments and events that give life flavour. An eminent anthropologist, now in her eighties, she draws on her own memories and the wisdom gained in a lifetime of exploration, to show how life is richer and more interesting than we often remember.
Two Sisters and Their Mother
An anthropologist's view of the incest taboo through and across cultures, including a new interpretation of kinship that emphasizes the primacy of the symbolic.The sharing of a sexual partner between relatives has always been taboo. In this stunning work, anthropologist Fran oise H ritier charts the incest prohibition throughout history, from the strict decrees of Leviticus to modern civil codes, and finds a secondary type of incest, which she calls the incest of two sisters. The term refers not to incest between two sisters, or between two sisters and their mother, but to a love triangle of sorts in which the transfer of bodily fluids among sexual partners, two of whom are related to each o...
Françoise Héritier
Follows the life of French anthropologist Françoise Héritier, who had a lasting impact on a generation of French anthropologists that continues to this day. A great intellectual figure, Françoise Héritier succeeded Claude Lévi-Strauss as the Chair of Anthropology at the Collège de France in 1982. She was an Africanist, author of magnificent works on the Samo population, the scientific progenitor of kinship studies, the creator of a theoretical base to feminist thought and an activist for many causes. “I read this intellectual biography of Françoise Héritier with great pleasure. Though highly regarded in France, she is not yet well known in English-language academic circles, but she...
Françoise Héritier
Foreword: The Gaze of Françoise Héritier / Michelle Perot -- Preface -- The Young Woman and the Young People in Her Circle -- The Izard's Africa and the Laboratory for Social Anthropology -- Kinship and Samo Ethnography -- Samo Ethnography and Working-out Kinship -- At the College de France -- Institutional Activities: Mitterrand II--Complexities of Alliance, Incest of the Second Type and Spiritual and Milk Kinships -- Masculine/Feminine -- Socialist Activist -- Feminism and Fantasy.
Françoise Héritier, la biographie
Françoise Héritier est une femme exceptionnelle. Anthropologue spécialiste de l’Afrique, elle a mené d’importants travaux sur la parenté. Élue au Collège de France, elle y a pris la succession de Claude Lévi-Strauss. Elle a aussi contribué à la pensée féministe. Par son œuvre, sa stature d’intellectuelle et son action publique, elle est un modèle pour les femmes. Parfaite introduction à la lecture de ses livres, la biographie de Gérald Gaillard restitue sa jeunesse et ses années de formation, et brosse le tableau d’une époque et d’une atmosphère intellectuelle. Elle retrace le parcours de la chercheuse, à Paris et aussi chez les Samo de Haute-Volta, confrontée ...
French Women Philosophers
This reader is the first of its kind to present the work of leading French women philosophers to an English-speaking audience. Many of the articles appear for the first time in English and have been specially translated for the collection. Christina Howells draws on major areas of philosophical and theoretical debate including Ethics, Psychoanalysis, Law, Politics, History, Science and Rationality. Each section and article is clearly introduced and situated in its intellectual context. The book is necessarily feminist in inspiration but draws on an unusually wide range of thinkers, chosen to represent the philosophy of women rather than feminist philosophy. It will be ideal for anyone coming...
Ten Thousand Things
Examines the myriad ways contemporary residents of Beijing understand and nurture the good life, practice the embodied arts of everyday well-being, and in doing so draw on cultural resources ranging from ancient metaphysics to modern media.
William Robertson Smith
"William Robertson Smith's influence on anthropology ranged from his relationship with John Ferguson McLennan, to advising James George Frazer to write about "Totem" and "Taboo" for the Encyclopaedia Britannica that he edited. This biography places a special emphasis on the notes and observations from his travels to Arabia, as well as on his influence on the representatives of the "Myth and Ritual School." With his discussion of myth and ritual, Smith influenced generations of scholars, and his insistence on the connection between the people, their God, and the land they inhabited inspired many of the concepts later developed by Émile Durkheim"--
