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Denis Vidal | |
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Born | [1] | July 4, 1954
Nationality | French[2] |
Occupation | Anthropologist |
Academic background | |
Education | Doctor of Philosophy |
Alma mater | Institut de recherche pour le développement |
Thesis | Le Culte des Divinités Locales dans une Région de l'Himachal Pradesh (November 1981) |
Doctoral advisor | Charles Malamoud |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Anthropology |
Sub-discipline | Social anthropology |
Institutions | Associate professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences Research director at Institut de recherche pour le développement |
Denis Vidal (born 4 July 1954) is a French anthropologist with a doctorate degree from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and the Université de Nanterre. He is an associate professor at the EHESS School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and a senior research fellow (Directeur de recherche) at the Institut de recherche pour le développement.[3]
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Further articles that engage directly with the Indian rationalist movement were written by the French anthropologist Denis Vidal (1998) and the scholar of religion Nehring (2008).
Denis Vidal is a social anthropologist, a Senior Research Fellow at IRD (URMIS-Paris Diderot) and an Associate Professor at the Musée du Quai Branly and at Hautes études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. His current research focuses on visual culture and on new ways of approaching technology from an anthropological perspective.