Henri Victor Vallois (11 April 1889 – 27 August 1981) was a French
anthropologist
An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms and ...
and
paleontologist
Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...
. He was one of the editors in chief of the ''Revue d'Anthropologie'' from 1932 to 1970, and became director of the
Musée de l'Homme
The Musée de l'Homme ( French, "Museum of Mankind" or "Museum of Humanity") is an anthropology museum in Paris, France. It was established in 1937 by Paul Rivet for the 1937 ''Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne' ...
in 1950.
Bibliography
* ''Les hommes fossiles, éléments de paléontologie humaine'', 1920
* ''Anthropologie de la population française'', 1943
* ''Les races humaines'', PUF, collection Que sais-je ?, 1944
See
Interview d'Henri Victor Vallois(pdf) por Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel (director de investigaciones de CNRS) 15 de febreo de 1981.
1889 births
1981 deaths
French anthropologists
20th-century anthropologists
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