Maurice Bloch

Maurice Bloch ( born 1939 in Caen ) is a British anthropologist French origin.

After his father's murder by Nazi occupiers Bloch moved to with his mother to Britain. He studied at the London School of Economics and the University of Cambridge, where he received his doctorate in 1967. Since 1983 he is professor at the London School of Economics. In addition, he taught as a visiting professor in many European countries and to major U.S. universities. Since 2005 he is also professor at the Collège de France.

His field research led Bloch mostly 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 29 May 2008
  • " The Reluctant Anthropologist ": Eurozine interview of Maurice Bloch by Maarja Kaaristo on 29 July 2007
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