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). He held for many years the Editorship of Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie (previously held by his mentor Georges Gurvitch) and edited the series Sociologie d'Aujourd'hui at Presses Universitaires de France. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georges Balandier is the 63rd most popular anthropologist (down from 60th in 2019), the 4,252nd most popular biography from France (down from 4,101st in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Georges Balandier ranks 63 out of 93. Before him are Aleš Hrdlička, Arjun Appadurai, Gayle Rubin, James C. Scott, Max Gluckman, and Robert Lowie. After him are Raymond Firth, Fiona Graham, Julio Caro Baroja, Ashley Montagu, Jack Goody, and Dmitry Anuchin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Georges Balandier ranks 288. Before him are Anton Malatinský, Chabuca Granda, Andrée Chedid, Lea Padovani, Jacqueline Mazéas, and Nobuyuki Kato. After him are Nida Senff, Jack Lord, Ehsan Yarshater, Musa Anter, Nils Bohlin, and Gordon Gould. Among people deceased in 2016, Georges Balandier ranks 317. Before him are John Johnson, Martin Gray, Fritz Stern, Michel Déon, Susana Duijm, and Eliseo Prado. After him are Merle Haggard, Ad-Diba, Pedro de Felipe, Prince Buster, Néstor Gonçalves, and Franco Faggi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Balandier ranks 4,252 out of 6,770. Before him are Guy Bourdin (1928), Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant (1800), Jacqueline Mazéas (1920), Georges Beaucourt (1912), Audrey Fleurot (1977), and Jean-Marie Poiré (1945). After him are Olivier de Serres (1539), André-Pierre Gignac (1985), Christiane Desroches Noblecourt (1913), Christophe Gans (1960), Luc-Olivier Merson (1846), and Juliet Berto (1947).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In France

Among anthropologists born in France, Georges Balandier ranks 9. Before him are Marc Augé (1935), 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), Françoise Héritier (1933), and Marcellin Boule (1861).

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