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Facts

Born May 7, 1876 • France
Died March 25, 1958 (aged 81) • Paris • France
Founder Musée de l’Homme
Notable Works “Les Origines de l’homme américain”
Subjects Of Study Andean civilization • Aymaran languages • Quechuan languages
Role In Resistance

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Paul Rivet sits at his desk in an office lined with bookshelves and filing cabinets, wearing a suit and round glasses, Paris, 1946.
Paul Rivet, wearing a suit and holding a hat, sits atop a carved stone statue at Teotihuacan, Mexico, with a stone wall in the background.
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The elevation of Marc Bloch to the Pantheon
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Claude Levi-Strauss wearing large glasses, a dark suit, and a red tie, standing indoors at his office in the College de France, Paris.
Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist
Simone Weil.
Simone Weil
French philosopher
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Jacques Chaban-Delmas
French politician
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Georges Bidault
prime minister of France
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Marcel Mauss
French sociologist and anthropologist
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Robert Doisneau
French photographer
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Arnold van Gennep
French anthropologist
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Marie-Pierre Koenig
French military officer
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Pierre Brossolette
French journalist
Jean Moulin
Jean Moulin
French resistance leader
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René Journiac
French jurist and administrator
Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico
Italian philosopher
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president of Yugoslavia
Noor Inayat Khan
Noor Inayat Khan
British resistance agent
Franz Boas
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
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Bronisław Malinowski
Bronisław Malinowski
Polish-born British anthropologist
Karl Ernst von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
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