# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/georges-balandier
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:29:12.151Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/georges-balandier"
name: "Georges Balandier"
slug: "georges-balandier"
description: "Georges Balandier was a French sociologist, anthropologist and ethnologist noted for his research on Sub-Saharan Africa. Balandier was born in Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont. He was a professor at the Sorbonne, and is a member of the Center for African Studies, a research center of the École pratique des hautes études. He held for many years the Editorship of Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie and edited the series Sociologie d'Aujourd'hui at Presses Universitaires de France. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1976. He died on 5 October 2016 at the age of 95."
tagline: "French anthropologist and ethnologist (1920–2016)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1920-12-21"
deathDate: "2016-10-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump