Maurice Bloch
Maurice Bloch (* 1939 in Caen ) is a British ethnologist of French origin.
After his father was murdered by National Socialist occupiers, Bloch and his mother moved to Great Britain . He studied at the London School of Economics and Cambridge University , where he received his doctorate in 1967 . Since 1983 he has been a professor at the London School of Economics. In addition, he taught as a visiting professor in many European countries and at major US universities. Since 2005 he has also been a professor at the Collège de France .
Most of his field research led Bloch to Madagascar .
Works (selection)
- Placing the Dead: Tombs, Ancestral Villages, and Kinship Organization in Madagascar , London: Seminar Press, 1971
- Marxism and Anthropology: The History of a Relationship , Oxford: Clarendon, 1983
- From Blessing to Violence: History and Ideology in the Circumcision Ritual of the Merina of Madagascar , Cambridge: CUP, 1986
- Prey into Hunter: The Politics of Religious Experience , Cambridge: CUP, 1992
- How We Think They Think: Anthropological Studies in Cognition, Memory and Literacy , Boulder: Westview Press, 1998
- Essays in the Transmission of Culture , Berg: London, 2005.
Interviews
- "Interview of Maurice Bloch" : Maurice Bloch interviewed by Alan Macfarlane on May 29, 2008
- "The Reluctant Anthropologist" : Eurozine interview of Maurice Bloch by Maarja Kaaristo on July 29, 2007
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bloch, Maurice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British ethnologist of French origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Caen |