CREDO (Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie)

Maurice GODELIER

Statut: Directeur d'Etudes

Institution: EHESS

Contact: Maurice.Godelier@ehess.fr

EHESS
54 Boulevard Raspail
75006 Paris
France

tel : 33(0)4 91 10 61 19

Current Position

Professor of anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. Former Director of the "Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie" (CREDO), CNRS/EHESS, Université de Provence, Marseille.

Occupations

1960-62 : Lecturer in anthropology, Assistant to Professor Fernand Braudel at E.H.E.S.S
1963-66 : Senior Lecturer in anthropology, Assistant to Professor Claude Lévi-Strauss at the Collège de France
1967-70 : Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (C.N.R.S), in charge of a research program in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea among the Baruya.
1971-1981 :     Professor of anthropology at the E.H.E.S.S., Paris.
1982-1986 : Scientific Director of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
1986-     : Professor of anthropology (de classe exceptionnelle) at the E.H.E.S.S.
Member of the editorial board of Ethnology and Comparative Studies in Society and History.
1995 - : Director of the C.R.E.D.O. (Centre de Recherches et de Documentation sur l’Océanie), CNRS/EHESS, Université de Provence, UMR 6574 (Marseille)
1997-2000    : Scientific Director of the Musée du Quai Branly.
2000 : Vice President of the National Council of the Development of Social Sciences and Humanities (CNCSHS)
2000    : Member of the National Science Committee
2001 : In charge of a mission for the Prime Minister for the Europeanization of Social Sciences.
2002    : Member of the European Project ECHO (European Heritage On Line), Responsible for the "Non-European Components of European Patrimony".
2002    : Member of the Advisory Group on Social Sciences and Humanities near the European High Commissioner for Research, Mr. Philippe Busquin.

Distinctions

Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Louvain (Belgium). Doctor Honoris Causa of the University San Marcos (Peru). Price of the French Academy (1982). Fellow at the Wissenschaftkolleg zu Berlin (1989). International Price in social sciences of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1990). Best of the CD-rom Culture 2000 and Golden Eureka 2000 for the CD-rom « Art and Civilizations. Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas ». Golden Medal of the National Center of Scientific Research 2001.

Fieldwork

Among the Baruya, a population of Papua New Guinea Highlands, beginning in 1966-1969.