Maurice Godelier

Maurice Godelier, 1977.

Born in Cambrai, France in 28 February 1934^[1], Maurice Godelier is one of the most influential names in French anthropology. Directeur d'études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Best known as one of the earliest advocates of Marxism's incorporation into anthropology, he is also known for his field work among the Baruya in Papua New Guinea that spanned three decades from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Bibliography

• Rationalité et Irrationalité en Economie – 1969 (2 volumes) (Rationality and Irrationality in Economics, London : NLB, 1972)

• La production des Grands Hommes. Pouvoir et domination masculine chez les Baruya de Nouvelle Guinée, Ed. Fayard (1982). (The Making of Great Men. Male domination and Power among the New Guinea Baruya, Cambridge University Press, 1986). Prize of the French Academy.

• L’idéel et le matériel, Ed. Fayard (1984). (The Mental and the Material. Thought, economy and society, Verso,1986).

• L’énigme du don, Ed. Fayard (1996). (The Enigma of the Gift, Chicago, Cambridge; Chicago University Press, Polity Press, 1998, ISBN 9780226300450).

• La Production du corps. Approches anthropologiques et historiques and Le Corps humain, supplicié, possédé, cannibalisé. Texts collected and edited by Maurice Godelier and Michel Panoff. Amsterdam, Archives contemporaines (1998).

References

External links

• Interview with Godelier
• Biography of Godelier
• Generation Online's presentation of Godelier
• Publisher's overview of Godelier's The Enigma of the Gift
• Jack Goody's book review of Godelier's Transformations of Kinship

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