Georges Balandier

Georges Balandier 21 December 1920 – 5 October 2016 was a French sociologist, anthropologist and ethnologist described for his research in Sub-Saharan Africa. Balandier was born in Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont. He was a professor at the Sorbonne Université René Descartes, Paris-V, in addition to is a module of the Center for African Studies Centre d'études africaines [Ceaf], a research center of the École pratique des hautes études School for modern Studies in the Social Sciences. He held for many years the Editorship of Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie before held by his mentor Georges Gurvitch and edited the series Sociologie d'Aujourd'hui at Presses Universitaires de France. He died on 5 October 2016 at the age of 95.