Maurice Bloch
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| Born | 1939 Caen, Calvados, France |
| Citizenship | British |
| Fields | Anthropology |
| Institutions | London School of Economics |
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London School of Economics Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (Ph.D.) |
Maurice Bloch (born in 1939 in Caen, Calvados, France) is a British anthropologist. His widowed mother remarried an Englishman, and moved with her son to England when he was eleven. He did all of his college and graduate work there, and has had most of his academic career at the London School of Economics, where he was made full professor in 1983.
Maurice Bloch was born in Caen, Calvados, to Jewish parents Claudette (née Raphael), a marine biologist, and Pierre Bloch, an engineer. His mother was a niece of sociologist Emile Durkheim and a much younger first cousin of anthropologist Marcel Mauss. Maurice attended the Lycée Carnot in Paris. His father was killed by the Nazis while in the French Army. When Maurice was eleven, his widowed mother married British biologist John S. Kennedy, whom she had met at a conference. She and her son moved to England to join Kennedy, and Bloch attended school there, becoming a British citizen.
He studied as an undergraduate at the London School of Economics, attending lectures at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He continued his training in anthropology at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he obtained his doctorate in 1967.
His subsequent career has been almost entirely at the London School of Economics, where he was appointed a full professor in 1983.
In 2005 Bloch was appointed European Professor at the Collège de France. He was until 2009 visiting Professor at the Free University of Amsterdam. He has taught and has been an occasional visiting professor in most European countries, as well as Japan. In the US, he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and at the New School for Social Research in New York City. At present, he is Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics and an associate member of the Institut Jean Nicod of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
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