Jean-Loup Amselle
Born1942
NationalityFrench
OccupationAnthropologist

Jean-Loup Amselle is a French anthropologist and ethnologist. He is director of studies emeritus at EHESS and former editor-in-chief of the Cahiers d’études africaines. Trained in social anthropology and in ethnology, Jean-Loup Amselle had realized several works in the field in Mali, in Côte d’Ivoire and in Guinea.[1] He is the inventor of an 'anthropology of connections' (the way that a society feeds off different influences) and pursues research about themes like ethnicity, identity, interbreeding, but also about contemporary African art, and about multiculturalism, postcolonialism and subordinatism.[2] In 1998, he led, with Emmanuelle Sibeud, a work dealing with Maurice Delafosse, one of the pioneers of French Africanist ethnology.

Selected works

  • Amselle, Jean-Loup, and Elikia M'BOKOLO, eds. Au cœur de l'ethnie: ethnies, tribalisme et État en Afrique. La découverte, 2017.
  • Amselle, Jean-Loup. "Logiques métisses: anthropologie de l'identité en Afrique et ailleurs." (1990).
  • Amselle, Jean-Loup. L'Occident décroché. Stock, 2008.
  • Amselle, Jean-Loup, and Emmanuelle Sibeud. "Maurice Delafosse." Entre orientalisme et ethnographie: l’itinéraire d’un africaniste (1870–1926)(Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose) (1998).
  1. ↑ See his blog (in French)
  2. ↑ See his page of researcher at the EHESS (in French)

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