Elena Cassin
Elena Cassin | |
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Born | 1909 Cuneo, Italy |
Died | June 2011 Paris, France |
Nationality | Italian then French |
Alma mater | Sapienza University of Rome |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Assyriology |
Institutions | French National Centre for Scientific Research |
Elena Cassin, (1909 - June 2011), was an Italian-born French
Biography
Elena Cassin, daughter of the banker and politician Marco Cassin,
She worked mainly on the legal and economic history of ancient
She participated with other colleagues committed to the left (Maxime Rodinson, Maurice Godelier, André-Georges Haudricourt, Charles Malamoud, Jean-Paul Brisson, Jean Yoyotte, Jean Bottero) in a Marxist think tank organised by Jean-Pierre Vernant. This group took on an institutional form with the creation, in 1964, of the Centre des recherches comparées sur les sociétés anciennes, which later became the Centre Louis Gernet, focusing more on the study of ancient Greece.[6]
Elena Cassin died at the age of 102.
Works
- L’adoption à Nuzi, Paris, Adrien Maisonneuve, 1938.[7]
- Cassin, Elena (1952). "Symboles de cession immobilière dans l'ancien droit mésopotamien". L'Année sociologique (1940/1948-). 6: 107–161. JSTOR 27885025..
- Cassin, Elena (1960). "Le sceau : un fait de civilisation dans la Mésopotamie ancienne". Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 15 (4): 742–751. S2CID 161099948..
- La splendeur divine. Introduction à l'étude de la mentalité mésopotamienne, Paris, 1968.[8]
- Cassin, Elena (1981). "Le roi et le lion". Revue de l'histoire des religions. 198 (4): 355–401. .
- Cassin, Elena (1995). San Nicandro. Un paese del Gargano si converte all'ebraismo (in Italian). Corbaccio. ISBN 978-88-7972-086-1.
References
- ^ "Marco Cassin", Wikipedia (in Italian), 2022-05-30, retrieved 2023-03-31
- ^ ISSN 0373-6032.
- S2CID 216115679.
- JSTOR 44810889.
- ^ BnF (ed.). Cassin. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
- ^ "Vernant Jean-Pierre". www.ex-pcf.com. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
- ^ Parrot, André (1938). "E.-M. Cassin. — L'adoption à Nuzi". Syria. Archéologie, Art et histoire. 19 (3): 290–291.
- S2CID 147400575.