André Leroi-Gourhan

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André Leroi-Gourhan (1911 – 1986) was a French archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, and anthropologist with an interest in technology and aesthetics and a penchant for philosophical reflection.

Works

Books

(in French unles noted)

  • La Civilisation du renne, Paris: Gallimard, 1936.
  • L'Homme et la Matière: Évolution et Techniques, Paris: Albin Michel, 1943; 2012, 352 pp.
  • Le geste et la parole: Technique et langage & La mémoire et les rythmes, 2 vols., Paris: Albin Michel, 1964-65, ARG/1.
    • El gesto y la palabra, trans. Felipe Carrera D., Caracas: Ediciones de la Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1971. (Spanish)
    • Il gesto e la parola, 2 vols., trans. Franco Zannino, Turin: Einaudi, 1977. (Italian)
    • Hand und Wort. Die Evolution von Technik, Sprache und Kunst, trans. Michael Bischoff, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1980; 1987, 532 pp. (German) [1]
    • Gesture and Speech, trans. Anna Bostock Berger, MIT Press, 1993, 453 pp. (English)

Articles, essays

(selection)

  • "Découvertes paléolithiques en Élide", Bulletin de correspondance hellénique, volume 88, 1964, pp 1-8, PDF.
  • "Interprétation esthétique et religieuse des figures et symboles dans la préhistoire", Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 21e Année, No. 42 (Jul. - Dec., 1976), pp 515.
  • more articles

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