Maurice Godelier

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Maurice Godelier is a prominent French anthropologist known for his influential work on economic anthropology, kinship, and the relationship between ideology and social structures.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf anthropologist
human
awardReceived CNRS Gold Medal NERFINISHED
citizenship France
countryOfBirth France
dateOfBirth 1934-02-28
educatedAt University of Paris NERFINISHED
École normale supérieure NERFINISHED
employer Centre national de la recherche scientifique NERFINISHED
École des hautes études en sciences sociales NERFINISHED
familyName Godelier NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork Marxist anthropology
anthropology
economic anthropology
history of anthropology
kinship studies
political anthropology
fieldworkRegion Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED
fieldworkSite Baruya people NERFINISHED
givenName Maurice NERFINISHED
hasGender male
influenced economic anthropology
kinship theory
influencedBy Claude Lévi-Strauss NERFINISHED
Karl Marx
Louis Althusser NERFINISHED
languageOfWorkOrName French
memberOf Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (France) NERFINISHED
movement structural Marxism NERFINISHED
name Maurice Godelier NERFINISHED
nationality French
notableIdea analysis of the autonomy of the ideological relative to the economic
reconceptualization of kinship and parenthood
notableWork Horizons, trajets marxistes en anthropologie NERFINISHED
L’idéel et le matériel
Métamorphoses de la parenté NERFINISHED
Rationalité et irrationalité en économie NERFINISHED
The Enigma of the Gift NERFINISHED
The Making of Great Men NERFINISHED
occupation researcher
university teacher
placeOfBirth Cambrai NERFINISHED
positionHeld director of studies at École des hautes études en sciences sociales
director of the Centre de recherche et de documentation sur l’Océanie
researchFocus gift and exchange systems
power and domination in small-scale societies
relations between economy and kinship
relationship between ideology and social structures

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Marcel Mauss influenced Maurice Godelier