Maurice Godelier
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Maurice Godelier is a prominent French anthropologist known for his influential work on economic anthropology, kinship, and the relationship between ideology and social structures.
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| Maurice Godelier canonical | 6 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maurice Godelier Context triple: [Marcel Mauss, influenced, Maurice Godelier]
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A.
Philippe Descola
Philippe Descola is a prominent French anthropologist renowned for his influential work on animism, ontologies, and the comparative study of human–nature relations.
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B.
Marilyn Strathern
Marilyn Strathern is a prominent British social anthropologist known for her influential work on kinship, gender, and the anthropology of Melanesia and the United Kingdom.
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C.
Natalie Zemon Davis
Natalie Zemon Davis is a renowned historian of early modern Europe, celebrated for her innovative social and cultural histories such as "The Return of Martin Guerre."
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D.
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss was a pioneering French anthropologist and ethnologist whose structuralist analyses of myth and culture profoundly shaped 20th-century social theory.
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E.
Alain Touraine
Alain Touraine was a prominent French sociologist known for his influential work on social movements, modernity, and the sociology of action.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maurice Godelier Target entity description: Maurice Godelier is a prominent French anthropologist known for his influential work on economic anthropology, kinship, and the relationship between ideology and social structures.
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A.
Philippe Descola
Philippe Descola is a prominent French anthropologist renowned for his influential work on animism, ontologies, and the comparative study of human–nature relations.
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B.
Marilyn Strathern
Marilyn Strathern is a prominent British social anthropologist known for her influential work on kinship, gender, and the anthropology of Melanesia and the United Kingdom.
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C.
Natalie Zemon Davis
Natalie Zemon Davis is a renowned historian of early modern Europe, celebrated for her innovative social and cultural histories such as "The Return of Martin Guerre."
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D.
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss was a pioneering French anthropologist and ethnologist whose structuralist analyses of myth and culture profoundly shaped 20th-century social theory.
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E.
Alain Touraine
Alain Touraine was a prominent French sociologist known for his influential work on social movements, modernity, and the sociology of action.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anthropologist
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human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | CNRS Gold Medal ⓘ |
| citizenship | France ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1934-02-28 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Paris
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École normale supérieure ⓘ
linked to:
École Normale (Paris)
|
| employer |
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
ⓘ
linked to:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
École des hautes études en sciences sociales ⓘ |
| familyName | Godelier ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Marxist anthropology
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anthropology ⓘ economic anthropology ⓘ history of anthropology ⓘ kinship studies ⓘ political anthropology ⓘ |
| fieldworkRegion | Papua New Guinea ⓘ |
| fieldworkSite | Baruya people ⓘ |
| givenName | Maurice ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| influenced |
economic anthropology
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kinship theory ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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Karl Marx ⓘ Louis Althusser ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (France)
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linked to:
Academy of Moral and Political Sciences
|
| movement |
structural Marxism
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linked to:
Western Marxism
|
| name | Maurice Godelier ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
analysis of the autonomy of the ideological relative to the economic
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reconceptualization of kinship and parenthood ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Horizons, trajets marxistes en anthropologie
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L’idéel et le matériel ⓘ Métamorphoses de la parenté ⓘ Rationalité et irrationalité en économie ⓘ The Enigma of the Gift ⓘ The Making of Great Men ⓘ |
| occupation |
researcher
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university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cambrai ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
director of studies at École des hautes études en sciences sociales
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director of the Centre de recherche et de documentation sur l’Océanie ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
gift and exchange systems
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power and domination in small-scale societies ⓘ relations between economy and kinship ⓘ relationship between ideology and social structures ⓘ |
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