Françoise Héritier (1933–2017): Anthropologist of the fourth generation of French Africanists and theorist of feminist hope

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Gérald Gaillard

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Gaillard, G. (2018). Françoise Héritier (1933–2017): Anthropologist of the fourth generation of French Africanists and theorist of feminist hope. Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society, 6(1), 7–28. https://doi.org/10.26806/modafr.v6i1.233
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Gérald Gaillard, Université des Sciences et des Techniques de Lille 1, France

Associate Professor at the Université des Sciences et des Techniques de Lille 1, member of the Clersé laboratory of the CNRS and the editorial committee of Cahiers d’études africaines, is the author of numerous texts on the history of anthropology. He spent the first eighteen years of his life in Bouaké and Abidjan (Ivory Coast). He studied in Paris, and conducted long-term fieldwork among the Biafada, living in a remote rural area on the border between Guinea Conakry and Guinea Bissau. He wrote a habilitation of classical style about them (2004), before turning to more comprehensive analyses of Guinea Bissau. Taking up the subject of globalisation, he expanded his research to the international marriage market notably in Asia.