Georges Balandier

Georges Balandier (born 21 December 1920) is a French sociologist, anthropologist and ethnologist noted for his research in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is currently a professor emeritus at the Sorbonne (Université René Descartes, Paris-V), and is a member of the Center for African Studies (Centre d'études africaines [Ceaf]), a research center of the École pratique des hautes études (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences).

Works

• Anthropologie Politique, Paris: PUF, 1967; 5th edition, 1999 review.
  • Antropologia Politica, trans. Meliton Bustamante, Barcelona: Ediciones Peninsula, 1969. (Spanish)
  • Political Anthropology, trans. A. M. Sheridan Smith, The Penguin Press, 1970, 1972. (English)
  • Politische Anthropologie, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1976, PDF. (German)
  • Antropologie politică, trans. Doina Lică, Timişoara: Amarcord, 1998, Scribd. (Romanian)

• Le désordre: Éloge du mouvement, Paris: Fayard, 1988.
  • El desorden. La teoría del caos y las ciencias sociales, trans. Beatriz Lopez, Barcelona: Gedisa, 1988; 3rd edition, 1993. (Spanish)

• Le détour. Pouvoir et modernité, Paris: Librairie Arthéme Fayard, 1985.
  • Modernidad y poder. El desvío antropológico, trans. José Ángel Alcalde, Madrid Ediciones JÚCAR, 1988. (Spanish)
• Civilisation et Puissance, Paris: L'Aube, 2005

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Balandier
• http://ceaf.ehess.fr/
• http://www.puf.com/Auteur:Georges_Balandier