# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francoise-heritier
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:16:14.493Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francoise-heritier"
name: "Françoise Héritier"
slug: "francoise-heritier"
description: "Françoise Héritier was a French anthropologist, ethnologist, and feminist. She was the successor to Claude Lévi-Strauss to hold the chair of anthropology at the Collège de France, and held the inaugural chair of Comparative Study of African Societies from 1983. Her work dealt mainly with the theory of alliances and on the prohibition of incest, both theories based on the notion of exchange of women. In addition to Lévi-Strauss, she was also influenced by Alfred Radcliffe-Brown."
tagline: "French anthropologist (1933–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fran%C3%A7oise_H%C3%A9ritier%2C_2009_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1933-11-15"
deathDate: "2017-11-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.20446933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 204
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3378567/"
    handle:    "nm3378567"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump