Isac Chiva

Isac Chiva (born September 7, 1925 in Iași , Romania ; † April 30, 2012 in Paris ) was a Romanian- French social anthropologist .

Life

Isac Chiva came to Paris in late 1947 after surviving the Iași death train and impending the arrival of the Stalinists. After studying at the Sorbonne University and at the Institute for Ethnology , which was affiliated with the Musée de l'Homme at the Trocadero, he conducted research in St. Viâtre, a village in Sologne in central France, in the 1950s . On behalf of UNESCO, he worked on rural communities such as Touraine in the greater Parisian basin, in the Maritime Alps and on Corsica. In 1959, in the Bagnols-sur-Cèze region, he studied the reactions of the population around the first FrenchNuclear power station at Marcoule.

In the 1960s, his research took him to Switzerland and the Burgundian Châtillonnais. Together with Claude Lévi-Strauss, he founded the Laboratory for Social Anthropology at the Collège de France , served as its deputy director and, since 1978, as President of the French Society for Ethnology and as a member of the High Commission for Monument Preservation. He worked in the French West Indies, on Haiti, in the Pyrenees, on the plain of the Ain river near Geneva and on the Breton countryside of Retz. In 1995, he donated his academic library to the University for Social Studies, with works on ethnology, sociology of rural areas, human geography and architecture.

Works

• Lettre reçue de Isac Chiva , correspondence 1933–1994 between Isac Chiva and Jean Gottmann, Paris, 1964
• Les études rurales en France , Editions de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 1972, ISBN 2-7132-0805-X
• (Ed. with Utz Jeggle ) German folklore - French ethnology: 2 location determinations , 1987
• Hommes et vins: une anthropologie du vignoble bourguignon , Édition universitaires de Dijon, 1999
• Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale , Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, December 2002, L'affaire Eugénie Goldstern, L'histoire d'une non-histoire
• Les Baronnies des Pyrénées: anthropologie et histoire, permanences et changements , Edition de l'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, 1999

literature

• Luc Boltanski: Le Bonheur suisse. D'après une enquête réalisée par Isac Chiva, Ariane Deluz, Nathalie Stern. Editions de Minuit, Paris 1966.
• Christine Laurière: Bibliothèque du Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale, Section des Archives, Présentation du Fonds Isac Chiva , December 2009

Web links

• http://www.cairn.info/load_pdf.php?ID_ARTICLE=ETHN_044_0671
• http://las.ehess.fr/docannexe.php?id=552
• http://www.revue-des-sciences-sociales.com/pdf/rss31-chiva.pdf
• http://www.lahuit.com/article/l-ethnologie-en-h-ritage-isaac-chiva

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Isac Chiva (1925–2012), figure majeure de l'anthropologie sociale. In: Le Monde . May 21, 2012, accessed June 1, 2012.
2. ↑ http://las.ehess.fr/docannexe.php?id=552  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.