Dan Sperber

Dan Sperber André ( born June 20, 1942 in Cagnes -sur -Mer ) is a French anthropologist and linguist.

Life

Dan Sperber is the son of the Austrian Manès Sperber, who had to emigrate from Germany in 1933, and those coming from Lithuania Zenija ( jenka ) Zivcon. The parents were in 1940 dodged after the occupation of France from Paris to the unoccupied zone and had to flee in 1942 before the German Nazis and their French supporters in Switzerland. There, Dan Sperber was initially housed in the detention Girenbad and then at a Zurich pastor. Manès Sperber 1942 was still married to Miriam Reiter, with whom he the son of Vladimir Sperber ( born in 1934 ) had. Shortly after the war, the family returned to France, Manes Sperber and Zivcon could marry only in the early 1950s.

Dan Sperber studied anthropology at the Sorbonne and the University of Oxford. In 1965 he became a research assistant at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS ), Laboratoire d' Études initially in Africa Ines. Later he was employed, then at the Centre de Recherche en epistemology Appliquée and the Institute Jean- Nicod finally from 2001 in the Laboratoire d' et de sociologie comparative ethnology. He became Professor Emeritus at the CNRS.

Sperber worked first religionsanthropologisch and led ethnographic field studies at the Dorze in Ethiopia. His theoretical studies to anthropology, he started as an employee of Claude Lévi -Strauss, for whom he worked at the CNRS. With a post-structuralist approach to research he solved later by Lévi- Strauss. With Deirdre Wilson in 1986, he developed the theory of relevance for communicative processes.

After the Gold medal argent du CNRS in 2002 Sperber received in 2009 was the first to neugestifteten "Prix Claude Levi -Strauss ," on the grounds that his work dealt with the interactions of the various human sciences in an excellent manner. He is a corresponding member of the British Academy.

Dan enjoyed the fame of his father, but " in later years it happened more and more often that you asked Manès: Excuse me, do you happen to be the father of the famous scientist Dan Sperber ". Dan Sperber has two sons who were born in 1986 and 2001. He now lives in the past his parents' apartment on the Rue Notre- Dame-des -Champs in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.

Writings (selection )

  • Le Structuralisme en anthropology, Éditions du Seuil, 1973
  • Rethinking Symbolism, Cambridge University Press, 1975 About symbolism, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1975
  • The knowledge of the ethnologist, Frankfurt: Ed. Qumran in the Campus -Verl., 1989
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