Jean-Pierre Warnier

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Jean-Pierre Warnier (* 1939 in France ) is a French ethnologist and university professor .

Life

Warnier taught ethnology in Nigeria and Cameroon before he went to the University of Paris V (Université Paris-René Descartes) as a professor of ethnology in 1985 . Today (2011) he is retired and researcher at the Center d'Études africaines (Ceaf) in Paris, a research center of the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), one of the grandes écoles in France.

Warnier has been researching economic and political history in the Cameroon grasslands since 1972, but later turned to the phenomenon of material culture as an instrument of rule.

Publications

  • Échanges, développement et hiérarchies dans le Bamenda pré-colonial (Cameroun) , in: Studien zur Kulturkunde Volume 76, Manuels et travaux de recherche de l ' Université de Yaoundé . Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-515-04281-4 .
  • Construire la culture matérielle: l'homme qui pensait avec ses doigts , Presses universitaires de France, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-130499198 .
  • Approches de la culture material corps a corps avec . Éditions Harmattan, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-738477674 .
  • French: Régner au Cameroun: Le roi-pot , Éditions Karthala, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-811-10176-3 .
    • English: The Pot-KIng: The Body and Technologies of Power , Brill, Leiden / Boston, MA 2007, ISBN 978-9-004-15217-5 .
  • The Sacred King, Royal Containers, Alienable Material Contents and Value in Modern Cameroon , working paper: Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main 2011.

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SURNAME Warnier, Jean-Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ethnologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH France