Jacques Maquet

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Jacques Jérôme Pierre Maquet (born August 4, 1919 in Brussels , † January 18, 2013 in Los Angeles , California ) was a Belgian anthropologist and Africanist . His specialty was the ethnography of Rwanda .

Live and act

Maquet first studied law and philosophy . The subject of his doctoral thesis was the sociology of knowledge . He studied at the Universities of Leuven and London , where he received his doctorate in 1952 , and at Harvard University .

Before the African states achieved independence, Maquet lived in Africa for ten years. He was director of a sociological research center in the African Great Lakes area and later held a professorship at a university in Central Africa.

After his return from Africa, he resumed his research and lectures in sociology at the universities of Paris and Brussels and later in the United States , where he taught at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

Jacques Maquet died January 18, 2013 in California at the age of 93.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs
  • Sociologie de la connaissance. Sa structure et ses reports avec la philosophy de la connaissance; Étude critique des systèmes de Karl Mannheim et de Pitirim A. Sorotkin (Collection de l'institut de recherches économiques et sociales de l'université de Louvain). Nauwelaerts, Leuven 1949 (with a foreword by filmmaker Stuart Northrop ).
  • La Système des Relations sociales dans le Ruanda ancien (Annales du Musee Royal du Congo belge . Sciences de l'Homme. Ethnology; Vol. 1). Tervuren 1954.
  • The premise of inequality in Rwanda. A study of political relations in a central African kingdom . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1961.
  • Rwanda. Essai photographique sur une société en transition . Elsevier, Brussels 1957 (together with Denyse Hièrnaux-L'Hoest).
  • Africanité traditional et modern . Édition Presence Africaine, Paris 1967.
  • Governance and social structures in Africa (“Pouvoir et Société en Afrique”, 1970). Kindler, Munich 1971.
  • Civilizations of Black Africa ("Les civilizations noires"). Oxford University Press, New York 1972, ISBN 0-19-501463-4 .
  • The Africans. Peoples and cultures of the black continent ("Afrique. Les civilizations noires", 1962). Heyne, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-453-00889-8 (together with Herbert Ganslmayr ).
  • Dictionary of Black African Civilization ("Dictionnaire des civilizations africaines"). Leon Amiel Publisher, New York 1974 (with Georges Balandier ).
  • The Aesthetic Experience. An Anthropologist Looks at the Visual Arts . Yale University Press, New Haven 1986, ISBN 0-300-04134-9 .
Essays
Editions
  • On Linguistic Anthropology. Essays in Honor of Harry Hoijer 1979 (Other Realities; Vol. 2). Udena, Malibu, CA. 1980, ISBN 0-89003-062-6 .
  • On Symbols in Anthropology. Essays in Honor of Harry Hoijer 1980 (Other Realities; Vol. 3). Udena, Malibu, CA. 1982, ISBN 0-89003-090-1 .
  • On Marxian Perspectives in Anthropology. Essays in Honor of Harry Hoijer 1981 (Other Realities; Vol. 5). Udena, Malibu, CA. 1984, ISBN 0-89003-178-9 (with Nancy Daniels).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data of Jacques Maquet in: Les Civilizations noires: histoire, techniques, arts, sociétés , by Jacques Jérôme Pierre Maquet, Gérard, 1966, p. 320
  2. ↑ Prof. Emeritus Jaques Maquet Passes Away At 93 ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , University of California, Los Angeles website , accessed February 4, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.anthro.ucla.edu
  3. ^ English edition: Sociology of Knowledge. Its Structure and Its Relation to the Philosophy of Knowledge. A Critical Analysis of the Systems of Karl Mannheim and Pitirim A. Sorokin . Beacon Press, Boston 1951.
  4. ↑ English edition: Africanity. The cultural unity of Black Africa . Oxford University Press, New York 1972.
  5. ^ Engl. Edition: Power and Society in Africa . Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London 1971.
  6. ↑ Former title: Africa. The black civilizations . Kindler, Munich 1970.
personal data
SURNAME Maquet, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maquet, Jacques Jérôme Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian anthropologist and Africanist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 2013
Place of death Los Angeles , California