Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale

Founded in 1960 by Claude Lévi-Strauss (at the time full professor holding the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France), the laboratory has always had a generalist orientation open towards all major themes of ethnology and social anthropology. The research conducted by the laboratory covers most cultural zones on the globe: Europe, Africa, the Middle-East, central Asia, North and South America, Australia, Oceania and India.

The Laboratory of Social Anthropology is affiliated with three institutions: the Collège de France (Chair of Anthropology of Nature), the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS-UMR 7130) and the École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). It has approximately fifty permanent members (researchers and research professors) in addition to a hundred doctoral students preparing their doctoral dissertations with them.

The laboratory provides means for undertaking research and diffusing the results thereof. It houses the editorial boards of two journals belonging to the EHESS (L’homme and Études rurales) and of a collection, Cahiers d’Anthropologie Sociale, published by the Éditions de l’Herne. The laboratory has a library specialized in social anthropology and ethnology as well as a resource center for comparative studies (HRAF: Human Relations Area Files).

Every second Wednesday of each month an internal seminar is held where student and researcher work in progress is discussed.


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52 rue du Cardinal-Lemoine - 75005 Paris
Téléphone : 00 33 (0)1 44 27 17 31
Télécopie : 00 33 (0)1 44 27 17 66
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