فرانسواز هریتیر

**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 certainly should be. This book will be a revelation to many anthropologists and feminist scholars.”—Adam Kuper, London School of Economics __From the Forword by Michelle Perrot: I came to know her at the National Council for HIV, that she chaired from 1989 to 1994.... Her theoretical concerns were also crucial to the understanding of pandemics, but we did not then realise that HIV/AIDS was also a precursor and a warning of pandemics to come. She grasped the importance of conceptions of bodily ‘humours’—blood, semen, milk—that seemed to play a role in the horrific spread of an epidemic of which we knew nothing, except that it resulted in an appalling mortality rate, particularly among young men.... she was a remarkable chair, concerned to share her insights into the illness and to anchor—necessary—interventions within a framework that would be respectful of human rights.__

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 certainly should be. This book will be a revelation to many anthropologists and feminist scholars."—Adam Kuper, London School of Economics

From the Forword by Michelle Perrot:
I came to know her at the National Council for HIV, that she chaired from 1989 to 1994.... Her theoretical concerns were also crucial to the understanding of pandemics, but we did not then realise that HIV/AIDS was also a precursor and a warning of pandemics to come. She grasped the importance of conceptions of bodily 'humours'—blood, semen, milk—that seemed to play a role in the horrific spread of an epidemic of which we knew nothing, except that it resulted in an appalling mortality rate, particularly among young men.... she was a remarkable chair, concerned to share her insights into the illness and to anchor—necessary—interventions within a framework that would be respectful of human rights.

CONTENTS FOREWORD: THE GAZE OF FRANÇOISE HÉRITIER PREFACE CHAPTER 1 THE YOUNG WOMAN AND THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN HER CIRCLE CHAPTER 2 THE IZARDS’ AFRICA AND THE LABORATORY FOR SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY CHAPTER 3 KINSHIP AND SAMO ETHNOGRAPHY CHAPTER 4 SAMO ETHNOGRAPHY AND WORKING OUT KINSHIP CHAPTER 5 AT THE COLLÈGE DE FRANCE CHAPTER 6 INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES: MITTERRAND II CHAPTER 7 COMPLEXITIES OF ALLIANCE, INCEST OF THE SECOND TYPE AND SPIRITUAL AND MILK KINSHIPS CHAPTER 8 MASCULINE/FEMININE CHAPTER 9 SOCIALIST ACTIVIST CHAPTER 10 FEMINISM AND FANTASY SELECTED WORKS BY FRANÇOISE HÉRITIER REFERENCES INDEX "A great intellectual figure, Françoise Héritier succeeded Claude Lévi-Strauss as the Chair of Anthropology at the Collège de France in 1982. She was both 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. This book follows the path of her life, which had a lasting impact on a generation of French anthropologists and continues to this day"-- Provided by publisher 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