Claude-Hélène Perrot

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Claude-Hélène Perrot
Born13 September 1928
Died16 July 2019
Alma materUniversity of Paris
OccupationHistorian

Claude-Hélène Perrot (13 September 1928 – 16 July 2019) was a French historian and

University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne from 1983 to 1993. Perrot's main areas of research concerned the history of the Akan of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana before colonization, mainly the Anyi and the Eotile; the use of oral tradition by historians; as well as relations between traditional African religions and political power.[1] She was honored as Commander, Order of Ivory Merit
.

Early life and education

Claude-Hélène Perrot was born in Lembach on 13 September 1928 into a Franche-Comté family.[2] She was the sister of François Perrot.[3]

Perrot completed a degree in history and geography at the Sorbonne in 1950,[4] and after obtaining further training, became a secondary education teacher in Cholet and Coulommiers,[2] from 1955 to 1961.[4]

Her interests in Africa occurred during a trip to Senegal, after which she enrolled at the École pratique des hautes études, where she studied under Roger Bastide and Georges Balandier.[2] She worked in the archives of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society and prepared a thesis on the Sotho king Moshoeshoe I, which she defended at the Faculté des lettres de Paris, in 1963,[4] and which was published in 1970 under the title Les Sotho et les Missionnaires européens au XIXe siècle ("The Sotho and European Missionaries in the 19th century").[5]

Career

Perrot was affiliated with the School of Letters in

University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. In 1978, she defended a state thesis, entitled Les Anyi-Ndenyé et le pouvoir politique aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles ("The Anyi-Ndenyé and political power in the 18th and 19th centuries") at Paris Descartes University,[6] and published under the same title in 1984.[4] In 1983, she was elected professor at University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.[2] She retired from academia in 1993, while continuing to lead a university seminar and to travel to Côte d'Ivoire for conferences.[7] She belonged to the Comité de vigilance face aux usages publics de l'histoire.[8]

Perrot died in Paris on 16 July 2019.

Awards

Selected works

  • Les Sothos et les missionnaires européens, Annales de l'université d'Abidjan, série F, tome 2/1, Impr. Darantière, Dijon, 1970, p. 192. (in French)
  • Les Anyi-Ndényé et le pouvoir aux 18 et 19 siècles, Publications de la Sorbonne, 1982. (in French)
  • « Les Missionnaires français et la construction d'un État. Le Lesotho au temps d'Eugène Casalis », in Daniel C. Bach (dir.), La France et l'Afrique du sud. Histoire, mythes et enjeux contemporains, Karthala, 1990, pp. 111–132
    ISBN 2-86537-269-3
    (in French)
  • (dir.) Lignages et territoire en Afrique aux XVIII & XIX. Stratégies, compétition, intégration, Khartala, 2000[9] (in French)
  • Les Éotilé de Côte d'Ivoire aux XVIII & XIX. Pouvoir lignager et religion, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2008, coll. « Homme et société », p. 272,
    ISBN 978-2-85944-598-0
    (in French)

References

  1. ^ "PERROT Claude-Hélène". imaf.cnrs.fr. IMAF – Institut des mondes africains. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d "Claude-Hélène Perrot, historienne de l'Afrique, est morte". lemonde.fr. 22 July 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2019.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "Mort de François Perrot, résistant" (in French). lemonde.fr. 17 October 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "In memoriam Claude-Hélène Perrot". imaf.cnrs.fr. IMAF – Institut des mondes africains. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  5. ^ Nardin, Jean-Claude (1972). "Perrot (Claude-Hélène) : Les Sotho et les missionnaires européens au XIXe siècle. Préf. de G. Balandier". Outre-Mers. Revue d'histoire. 59 (214): 152–153. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  6. ^ Perrot, Claude-Hélène (1978). Les Anyi-Ndenye et le pouvoir politique aux XVIIIè- et XIXè siècles (Thesis). Université Paris Descartes. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  7. ^ "Hommage à Claude-Hélène Perrot (1928–2019)". lhistoire.fr. 22 July 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  8. ^ "February 2007 » African Studies Center – Blog Archive". www.bu.edu. Boston University. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  9. ^ [compte rendu] Pierre Kipré, « Perrot, Claude-Hélène (dir.). — Lignages et territoire en Afrique aux XVIII & XIX. Stratégies, compétition, intégration Paris, Éditions Karthala (« Hommes et sociétés »), Paris, 2000, 222 p. », Cahiers d'études africaines, n°175, 2004, pp. 705–711 https://journals.openedition.org/etudesafricaines/4797
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