Éveline Lot-Falck

Éveline Lot-Falck (* 1918 ; † 1974 ) was a French anthropologist, ethnologist and religious scholar whose specialty was the religions, especially the shamanism of the peoples of Northern Europe and Northern Asia . Her parents Ferdinand Lot and Myrrha Borodina were both Medievalists . Her best-known work, Les Rites des Chasse chez les peuples sibériens , deals with the hunting rites of the Siberian peoples and draws on the most important Russian studies.

She worked at the Musée de l'Homme in Paris . In 1963 a chair was created for her subject area “Religions comparées des peuples arctiques” at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris.

Major works

Eveline Lot-Falck: Les Rites des Chasse chez les peuples sibériens. Paris: Gallimard 1953 (L'Espèce humaine) ( partial online view )
Régis Boyer and Eveline Lot-Falck: Les religions de l'Europe du Nord. Eddas - Sagas - Hymnes chamaniques. Paris: Fayard / Denoel 1974 ( Review )

personal data
SURNAME	Lot-Falck, Éveline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French anthropologist, ethnologist and religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	1918
DATE OF DEATH	1974