| September 2nd, 2013 | Date of death |
| December 2010 | First class Director (emeritus) of Research at the CNRS |
| September 2002 | First class Director of Research at the CNRS |
| Oct. 2001 - Feb. 2003 | Associate Professor in University Paris X - Nanterre for "Anthropology and societies (gift and exchange)" |
| March 1997 | Member of the UMR 16 "Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale" ["Laboratory of Social Anthropology"] at the Collège de France |
| January 1991 | Member of the UMR 116 "Laboratoire d’Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative" ["Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology"] at the university of Paris X - Nanterre |
| October 1986 | Second class Director of research at the CNRS; member of the UA 882 "Appropriation sociale de la nature" ["Social appropriation of nature"] at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle |
| 1982-1985, then 1991-1996 | Associate Professor in University Paris X – Nanterre for "Economic Anthropology" and "Comparative Anthropology of Societies (gift and exchange)" |
| January 1982 | Senior researcher at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – National Center for Scientific Research) |
| June 1975 | Doctorat de 3e cycle (Phd) in Social Anthropology in Paris VII-University : Des classifications dualistes en Australie (dissertorial thesis published in 1976) |
| Feb. 1971 - June 1972 | Engineer research analyst in the Mathematical Department of the SEMA (Société d'Études de Mathématiques Appliquées – Research Society for Applied Mathematics) |
| June 1969 | Diplôme Universitaire d’Études Littéraires (Philosophy) – approximativly BA |
| Nov. 1968 - Feb. 1970 | Military service |
| 1965-1968 | Engineering degree at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris |
| 1963-1965 | Advanced mathematics and special mathematics courses in "Classes préparatoires" at Saint-Louis high school, Paris |
| 1963 | French Baccalaureate (elementary mathematics) |
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December 30th, 1945 |
Date of birth |
