French ethnologist (1940–2021)
Martine Segalen (20 July 1940 – 23 June 2021) was a French ethnologist. A specialist on family matters and European culture, she was a professor for multiple universities.
Biography.
Segalen began working as a professor in the sociology department at Paris Nanterre University in 1996. She would go on to direct the sociology department and the Diplôme d’études supérieures spécialisées program. She had graduated from Sciences Po in 1960, in addition to her doctorate in ethnology in 1984. From 1971 to 1996, she was a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and was Director of the Centre d'ethnologie française from 1986 to 1996. In 2015, she became a member of the Société d'ethnologie française.
Martine Segalen died on 23 June 2021 at the age of 80.
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