17 Facts About Maurice Bloch

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Maurice Bloch is famous for his fieldwork on the shift of agriculturalists in Madagascar, Japan and other parts of the world, and has contributed important neo-Marxian work on power, history, kinship, and ritual.

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Maurice Bloch was born in Caen, Calvados, to Jewish parents Claudette, a marine biologist, and Pierre Bloch, an engineer.

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Maurice Bloch's grandmother was a niece of sociologist Emile Durkheim and a much younger first cousin of anthropologist Marcel Mauss.

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Maurice Bloch's father was killed by the Nazis while in the French Army.

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When Maurice was eleven, his widowed mother married British biologist John S Kennedy, whom she had met at a conference.

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Maurice Bloch studied as an undergraduate at the London School of Economics, attending lectures at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

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Maurice Bloch continued his training in anthropology at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he obtained his doctorate in 1968.

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8.

In 2005 Bloch was appointed European Professor at the College de France.

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Maurice Bloch was until 2009 visiting Professor at the Free University of Amsterdam.

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Maurice Bloch has taught and has been an occasional visiting professor in most European countries, as well as Japan.

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Maurice Bloch has supervised many younger anthropologists, several of whom hold prestigious posts in the UK, US, Australia, Japan, France, Canada, the Netherlands, China, Argentina, Madagascar and Malaysia.

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Maurice Bloch's writings have been translated into at least twelve languages.

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In 1990, Maurice Bloch was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

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Maurice Bloch's writing deals with religion, kinship, economics, politics and language.

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Maurice Bloch's research has been much influenced by French Marxist ideas.

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Maurice Bloch has been an innovator in relating social anthropology to linguistics and cognitive psychology.

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Maurice Bloch has published more than a hundred articles and many books, half of which concern Madagascar in some way.