The Research Center for Anthropology and Comparative Sociology or LESC (Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative - LESC) is a cross-faculty research entity of the
Paris West University Nanterre La Défense
Paris Nanterre University (), formerly University of Paris West, Paris-X and commonly referred to as Nanterre, is a public research university based in Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, France, in the Paris metropolitan area. It is one of the most pres ...
and the
National Center for Scientific Research (
CNRS
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...
)
The French School of Anthropology
The center was founded in 1967 at
Paris X University by Eric de Dampierre, and associated with the
National Scientific Research Council (
CNRS
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...
) from 1968. In 1989 it became a Mixed Research Unit (UMR). Today it is the UMR 7186.
Activities
The spectrum of research activities covered by the LESC is quite vast, reaching from traditional fieldwork based ethnography to visual anthropology.
These activities are conducted mainly within the three scientific research departments:
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Technology
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Americanism
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Ethnomusicology
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Learned societies
They are two
learned societies
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housed in the LESC.
* The Société d'ethnologie, created in 1986 by Eric de Dampierre.
* The Société des africanistes, created in 1930.
Anthropology library
The Library named after Eric de Dampierre has one of the largest collection of anthropological reviews and files on Africanist, Americanist and Mongol studies in France.
Scientific publications
* the Ateliers du LESC, is the electronic publication of the laboratory, available free and online on
Revues.org, the French public open source science portal.
* Journal des africanistes, published by the société des africanistes since 1931.
See also
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French Anthropology
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Paris West University Nanterre La Défense
Paris Nanterre University (), formerly University of Paris West, Paris-X and commonly referred to as Nanterre, is a public research university based in Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, France, in the Paris metropolitan area. It is one of the most pres ...
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National Center for Scientific Research
* , Nanterre
References
External links
LESC Official website in EnglishLESC Official website in French
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Research institutes in France
Social science research institutes
French National Centre for Scientific Research
French UMR