Denis Vidal

Denis Vidal
Born (1954-07-04) July 4, 1954 (age 70)[1]
NationalityFrench[2]
OccupationAnthropologist
Academic background
EducationDoctor of Philosophy
Alma materInstitut de recherche pour le développement
ThesisLe Culte des Divinités Locales dans une Région de l'Himachal Pradesh (November 1981)
Doctoral advisorCharles Malamoud [fr]
Academic work
DisciplineAnthropology
Sub-disciplineSocial anthropology
InstitutionsAssociate 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]

  1. ^ Denis Vidal. Paris, France. Retrieved 25 May 2021. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ^ Quack, Johannes (2012) [Composed 2011]. "Object of Inquiry: Indian Rationalists, Modes of Unbelief and Disenchantment". Disenchanting India: Organized Rationalism and Criticism of Religion in India (illustrated ed.). New York, USA: Oxford University Press. pp. 7–46. ISBN 978-0199812608. LCCN 2011005851. p. 17: 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).
  3. ^ Kaur, Raminder; Dave-Mukherji, Parul, eds. (2020) [First published 2014]. "Notes on Contributors". Arts and Aesthetics in a Globalizing World. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 978-1000189650. OCLC 1155638013. p. 9: 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.