have the pleasure to invite you to the lecture
How Theory and Ethnography Link
Up: a Malagasy Example
given by
Maurice BLOCH
Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics
and Fellow of the British Academy
Wednesday, the 15th of June, 17h00
New Europe College
21, Plantelor Street
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Maurice BLOCH is one of the most distinguished anthropologists worldwide. Trained at the LSE
and Cambridge University, he has done fieldwork in Madagascar among Merina and Zafimaniry
over the last half century. This extensive ethnographic research has been the backbone for pathbreaking theoretical work on ritual, political ideology, memory, cognition and religion. Professor
Bloch’s long-term interests in linguistics and cognitive sciences were central to his more recent
research in cognitive anthropology and his inter-disciplinary collaboration with child
psychologists and cognitive scientists. He authored, co-authored and edited seminal publications
such as Placing the Dead: Tombs, Ancestral Villages, and Kinship Organization in Madagascar (1971),
Death and the Regeneration of Life (ed. with J. Parry, 1982), From Blessing to Violence: History and
Ideology in the Circumcision Ritual of the Merina of Madagascar (1986), Money and the Morality of
Exchange (ed. with J. Parry, 1989), Prey into Hunter: The Politics of Religious Experience Death and the
Regeneration of Life (1992), How We Think They Think: Anthropological Studies in Cognition, Memory
and Literacy (1998) and In and Out of Each Other's Bodies: Theories of Mind, Evolution, Truth, and the
Nature of the Social (2013).
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