École de Paris (anthropology)

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The École de Paris (German School of Paris , also Vernant School ; now AnHiMA: Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques ) is the group of researchers and pupils around Jean-Pierre Vernant , Pierre Vidal-Naquet and Marcel in historical anthropology and classical studies Detienne , who with their studies of ancient Greece and other ancient societies from an anthropological perspective contributed to a changed image of the ancient world.

The spiritual father of the historical anthropology of Greece, as practiced by the École de Paris, is Louis Gernet , a teacher of Jean-Pierre Vernant.

Its institutional center was the Center de recherches comparées sur les sociétés anciennes (UMR 8567) founded by Jean-Pierre Vernant in 1964 , which was housed in the Maison d'Auguste Comte (10, rue Monsieur-le-Prince, 75006 Paris). After the founder of historical anthropology in France, it was renamed the Center Louis Gernet , which was looked after by both the CNRS and the EHESS , and since May 2004 in the building of the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (2, rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris). The library comprises 45,000 volumes on all disciplines of Greco-Roman antiquity and offers space for 60 readers.

According to Jean-Pierre Vernant, the directors of the institution were: Pierre Vidal-Naquet, François Hartog , François Lissarrague , François de Polignac .

Further researchers who belong to the École de Paris are: Paul Veyne , Nicole Loraux , Giulia Sissa , Florence Dupont , Claude Calame , Luc Brisson , Françoise Frontisi-Ducroux , Stella Georgoudi , Christian Jacob , Claude Mossé , Jesper Svenbro , Andreas Wittenburg .

On January 1, 2010 the Center Louis Gernet - Recherches comparées sur les sociétés anciennes (the former UMR 8567, CNRS / EHESS) with the Center Gustave Glotz. Mondes hellénistiques et romain (the former UMR 8585, CNRS / EPHE / Université Paris 1 / Université Paris IV) and with Phéacie - Pratiques culturelles dans les sociétés grecque et romaine (the former EA 6163, Université Paris 1 / Université Paris 7) to the The new AnHiMA (Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques) unit (UMR 8210) has been merged.

The current director is Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet .

In the ancient research landscape of France, the École de Paris stands in contrast to the hermeneutically oriented École de Lille around Jean Bollack . In Germany it is one of the forerunners of the historical anthropology research area that emerged in the 1990s. Classical scholars who mediated this reception process were in particular Renate Schlesier and Walter Eder .

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