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Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative (1967- )

The Laboratoire d’Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative (LESC), founded in 1967 by Éric de Dampierre, is a CNRS and University of Paris Nanterre research unit (UMR 7186). It is one of France’s leading anthropology laboratories, involved in a vast national and international network. Its main objectives are to produce and promote anthropological knowledge, to provide training and fieldwork-based research, and to preserve and disseminate documentary resources. Its broad researching programme covers all the world’s regions and all the major themes of the discipline. It has two specialised centres: the CREM, Centre de recherche en ethnomusicologie (centre for research in ethnomusicology), and the EREA, Enseignement et recherche en ethnologie amérindienne (teaching and research in Amerindian ethnology).

Keywords: Anthropology | French Ethnology | Second half of the 20th century | 21st century | France | Scientific Research Centre | Éric de Dampierre

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