Marie-Françoise Guédon is a Canadian anthropologist and professor of religious studies at the

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, Canada. She has done fieldwork among the

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, Gitksan,

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, and Tanana peoples of Canada and

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. Marie-Francois Guedon is the daughter of French Resistance fighters Robert Guedon and Reine Guedon. She was a student of the anthropologist

Frederica de Laguna Frederica ("Freddy") Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna (October 3, 1906 – October 6, 2004) was an American ethnologist, anthropologist, and archaeologist influential for her work on Paleoindian and Alaska Native art and archaeology in the American ...

, with whom she later did fieldwork in

in 1968. Her 2005 book, ''Le rêve et la forêt: histoires de chamanes nabesna '' (''The Dream and the Forest''), published by Laval University Press, was nominated for the 2006 Governor General's Award for French non-fiction. She is also director of the Canadian Centre for Inter-Culture Research and Training and has written extensively on North American world views and shamanism.

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* Mauzé, Marie, Michael E. Harkin, and Sergei Kan (eds.) (2004) ''Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions.'' Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Canadian women anthropologists Canadian non-fiction writers in French Academic staff of the University of Ottawa Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Canadian women non-fiction writers {{Canada-nonfiction-writer-stub