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Maurice Godelier

Born

in Cambrai, France

February 28, 1934

Genre

Social Sciences, Anthropology, Economics

Influences

Karl Marx, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Sigmund Freud, Edmund Husserl ...more

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One of the most influential names in French anthropology who works as the Directeur d'études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Best known as one of the earliest advocates of Marxism's incorporation into anthropology, he is also known for his field work among the Baruya in Papua New Guinea that spanned three decades from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Among the many honors he has received are the CNRS Gold Medal and the Alexander von Humboldt prize. His major works include The Making of Great Men, The Metamorphoses of Kinship, The Enigma of the Gift, In and Out of the West, and, more recently, Lévi-Strauss: A Critical Study of His Thought. ...more

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Maurice Godelier’s books

Average rating: 3.65 · 478 ratings · 70 reviews · 87 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Enigma of the Gift by Maurice Godelier, Nora Scott (Translation) 3.82 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1996 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Making of Great Men: Male Domination and Power among the New Guinea Baruya by Maurice Godelier, Rupert Swyer (Translator) 3.84 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1982 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mental and the Material 4.07 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1984 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Au fondement des sociétés humaines: Ce que nous apprend l'anthropologie 3.77 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rationality and Irrationality in Economics by Maurice Godelier, Brian Pearce (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1972 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Imagined, the Imaginary and the Symbolic 3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Metamorphoses of Kinship by Maurice Godelier, Nora Scott (Translator) 4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1998 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Perspectives in Marxist Anthropology 3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1977 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	القبائل في التاريخ وفي مواجهة الدول by Maurice Godelier, خليل أحمد خلبل (ترجمة) 2.61 avg rating — 31 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forbidden Fruit: An Anthropologist Looks at Incest by Maurice Godelier, Nora Scott (Translator) 2.86 avg rating — 28 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars