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Claude Meillassoux
French anthropologist (1925-2005) · France · On the map · Academics · Died at 79
Claude Meillassoux was a French neo-Marxist economic anthropologist and Africanist. A student of Georges Balandier, he did fieldwork among the Guro (Gouro) of Côte d'Ivoire; his thesis was published in 1964. In the 1970s he criticised Marshall Sahlins's use of the notion of "domestic mode of production".
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Meillassoux was throughout his life a politically committed critic of social injustice.
