Socio-anthropologie des religions

Claude Rivière has been professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Paris V since his retirement in 1999. Born in Curzon (Vendée) on 24/12/1932, he was a primary school teacher in Les Sables d'Olonne, military in Algeria, professor of philosophy and letters in secondary school in Angers and Lorient. His doctorate in philosophy, “The social object”. His State Doctorate (dir.: G. Balandier) focuses on “The dynamics of social stratification in Guinea” (1975). After his first research on Africa (Guinea, Togo in particular), he studied political and secular rites in Europe.