The Odyssey of Michel Izard: An Appreciation
Journal Title: Social Evolution & History - Year 2014, Vol 13, Issue 2
Abstract
In the French academic system there have been two kinds of doctoral degrees. The first, Le Doctorat 3-ème cycle, is fairly common and can be compared roughly to doctoral degrees in the United States, the UK and elsewhere. The second degree, Le Doctorat d'Etat, which has been given rarely and has no equivalent in the USA or UK, is awarded for a substantial work of seasoned scholarship. Some of the great luminaries of twentieth-century French intellectual life were awarded the Le Doctorat d'Etat. In philosophy, Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Doctorat d'Etat thesis became the classic work, The Phenomenology of Perception. In anthropology, Claude Levi-Strauss's Doctorat d'Etat became the groundbreaking work, The Elementary Structures of Kinship and Marriage. In African studies, Jean Rouch's Doctorat d'Etat was transformed into the classic text, La religion et la magie Songhay.
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Paul Stoller
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