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).
Literature
- Anthropologie Politique, Paris: PUF, 1967; 5th edition, 1999 review.
- Antropologia Politica, trans. Meliton Bustamante, Barcelona: Ediciones Peninsula, 1969. (in Spanish)
- Political Anthropology, trans. A. M. Sheridan Smith, The Penguin Press, 1970, 1972. (in English)
- 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. (in 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. (in Spanish)
- Civilisation et Puissance, Paris: L'Aube, 2005
