Maurice Godelier ©Hannah Assouline

PHILOSOPHER AND ANTHROPOLOGIST

France

Maurice Godelier (France), anthropologist, was once the assistant of Claude Lévi-Strauss, about whom he published a critical reading in 2013 (Lévi-Strauss, Seuil). The former scientific director of the human and social sciences department at the CNRS, he is in France one of the founders of economic anthropology. Maurice Godelier is an Officer of the Legion of Honor, and has received the CNRS Gold medal. In 2008 he was awarded the Prize of the French Academy for his book Au Fondement des Sociétés Humaines. Ce que nous apprend l'anthropologie (Albin Michel, 2007).

> Lévi-Strauss (Le Seuil, 2013)

> La Mort et ses au-delà (CNRS Editions, 2014)