Jean-Loup Amselle
Jean-Loup Amselle | |
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| Born | 1942 |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Anthropologist |
Jean-Loup Amselle is a French anthropologist and ethnologist. He is director of studies emeritus at EHESS and former editor-in-chief of the Cahiers d’études africaines. Trained in social anthropology and in ethnology, Jean-Loup Amselle had realized several works in the field in Mali, in Côte d’Ivoire and in Guinea[1]. He is the inventor of an anthropology of connections (the way that a society feeds of different influences) and pursues research about themes like ethnicity, identity, interbreeding, but also about contemporary African art, and about multiculturalism, postcolonialism and subordinatism[2]. In 1998, he led, with Emmanuelle Sibeud, a work dealing with Maurice Delafosse, one of the pioneers of French Africanist ethnology.
Selected works
- Amselle, Jean-Loup, and Elikia M'BOKOLO, eds. Au cœur de l'ethnie: ethnies, tribalisme et État en Afrique. La découverte, 2017.
- Amselle, Jean-Loup. "Logiques métisses: anthropologie de l'identité en Afrique et ailleurs." (1990).
- Amselle, Jean-Loup. L'Occident décroché. Stock, 2008.
- Amselle, Jean-Loup, and Emmanuelle Sibeud. "Maurice Delafosse." Entre orientalisme et ethnographie: l’itinéraire d’un africaniste (1870–1926)(Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose) (1998).
References
- ^ See his blog (in French)
- ^ See his page of researcher at the EHESS (in French)