by Georges Balandier · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266025829
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«Afrique ambiguë» is the ethnological essay by Georges Balandier, published by Presses Pocket in paperback (376 pages, in French).
Georges Balandier combines ethnological observation with historical reflection to explore the contradictions of sub-Saharan African societies at the end of the colonial era. The author analyses identity, culture and social conditions, showing how traditional heritage coexists with the changes imposed by modernity and decolonisation.
It belongs to the Terre humaine/poche collection, number 3005. Originally published in 1957; this paperback edition from Presses Pocket dates from 1988.
For readers interested in ethnology, the history of Africa and French social thought.
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.
