Maurice Bloch
Maurice Bloch | |
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| Born | 21 October 1939 |
| Citizenship | British |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Anthropology |
| Institutions | London School of Economics |
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Maurice Émile Félix Bloch (born 21 October 1939) is a British anthropologist. He is famous for his fieldwork on the shift of agriculturalists in Madagascar, Japan and other parts of the world, and has also contributed important neo-Marxian work on power, history, kinship, and ritual.