Current Trends in French Ethnology
in Ethnologia Europaea
Author:
Martine Segalen
Martine Segalen
Université de Paris X-Nanterre
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French ethnology today is a very active discipline that deals with the concepts and methods of social anthropology in so far as they are relevant in accounting for the specificity of a complex, industrialized society. The paper summarizes the history of the discipline, its relationships with folklore and museums, and delineates the main fields of contemporary research: the city, culture, symbols and values, kinship. The most influential titles published in the last twenty years appear in the detailed bibliography.