Louis-Vincent Thomas
{{Short description|French scholar specializing in Africa}}
Louis-Vincent Thomas (20 May 1922 – 22 January 1994) was a French sociologist, anthropologist, ethnologist, and scholar whose specialty was Africa. After having taught at Cheikh Anta Diop University, he became a sociology professor at Paris Descartes University.
His writings deal with socialism, burials, and systems of thought in sub-Saharan Africa. He conducted comparative studies on death in Western culture and African culture. He often denounced the idea that anthropology and sociology are separate areas of study.
Writings
- {{Cite journal|author=Louis-Vincent Thomas|title=Éléments pour un itinéraire|journal=Sociétés|issue=93|date=March 2006|pages=39–43|publisher=De Boeck Université|isbn=2-8041-5181-6|language=fr}}
- {{Cite book|author=Louis-Vincent Thomas|title=Pouvoirs sorciers. Enquêtes sur les pratiques actuelles de sorcellerie|author2=Dominique Camus |publisher=Imago|year=2004|language=fr}}
- {{Cite journal|author=Louis-Vincent Thomas|title=La mort|journal=Que Sais-Je|publisher=PUF|year=2003|language=fr}}
- {{Cite book|author=Louis-Vincent Thomas|title=Les chairs de la mort : corps, mort, Afrique|location=Paris|publisher=Inst. d'Éd. Sanofi-Synthélabo|year=2000|language=fr}}
- {{Cite book|author=Louis-Vincent Thomas|title=Mort et pouvoir|publisher=Petite bibliothèque Payot|year=1999|language=fr}}
- {{Cite book|author=Louis-Vincent Thomas|title=Les religions d'Afrique noire : textes et traditions sacrés|author2=René Luneau |publisher=Editions Stock|year=1995|language=fr}}
- {{Cite journal|author=Louis-Vincent Thomas|title=Anthropologie de la maladie. Etude ethnologique des systèmes de représentations étiologiques et thérapeutiques dans la sociétés contemporaines|journal=Bibliothèque Scientifique Payot|author2=François Laplantine |year=1993|language=fr}}
- {{Cite book|author=Martine Courtois|title=Les Mots de la mort|publisher=Éditions Belin|year=1991|isbn=2-7011-1155-2|language=fr}}
- {{Cite journal|author=Louis-Vincent Thomas|title=Fantasme et formation|journal=Inconscient et Culture|author2=René Kaës |author3=Didier Anzieu |publisher=Dunod|language=fr}}
- {{Cite book|author=Louis-Vincent Thomas|title=Mort et pouvoir|publisher=Petite bibliothèque Payot|year=1998|language=fr}}
- {{Cite book|author=Louis-Vincent Thomas|title=Beyrouth ou la fascination de la mort|author2=Issa Makhlouf|author2-link=Issa Makhlouf|publisher=Éditions de La Passion|year=1992|language=fr}}
- {{Cite book|author=Louis-Vincent Thomas|title=Anthropologie des obsessions|publisher=L'Harmattan|year=1988|language=fr}}
- {{Cite book|author=Louis-Vincent Thomas|title=La Mort africaine: idéologie funéraire en Afrique noire|publisher=Payot|year=1982|language=fr}}
- {{Cite book|author=Louis-Vincent Thomas|title=Civilisation et divagations. Mort, fantasmes, science-fiction|publisher=Payot|year=1979|language=fr}}
- {{Cite book|author=Louis-Vincent Thomas|title=Anthropologie de la mort|publisher=Payot|year=1975|isbn=2-228-11480-4|language=fr}}
- {{Cite book|author=Louis-Vincent Thomas|title=Cinq essais sur la mort africaine|location=Dakar|publisher=Université de Dakar|year=1968|language=fr}}
- {{Cite book|author=Louis-Vincent Thomas|title=Le socialisme et l'Afrique : Essai sur le socialisme africain|location=Paris|publisher=Le livre Africain|year=1966|language=fr}}
- {{Cite book|author=Louis-Vincent Thomas|title=Le socialisme et l'Afrique : L'idéologie socialiste et les voies africaines de développement|location=Paris|publisher=Le livre Africain|year=1966|language=fr}}
- {{Cite book|author=Louis-Vincent Thomas|title=Les idéologies négro-africaines d'aujourd'hui|location=Paris|publisher=A.G. Nizet|year=1965|language=fr}}
- {{Cite book|author=Louis-Vincent Thomas|title=Les Diola. Essai d'analyse fonctionnelle sur une population de Basse-Casamance|publisher=Université de Paris|year=1959|language=fr}}
See also
=Bibliography=
- {{Cite journal|title=Une galaxie anthropologique. Hommage à Louis-Vincent Thomas|journal=Quel Corps?|issue=38/39|date=October 1989|language=fr}}
- {{Cite book|title=Socio-anthropologie de la mort : Louis-Vincent Thomas: dix ans après|location=Bruxelles|publisher=Univ. Libre|year=2005|issue=3/4|language=fr}}
External links
- [http://www.cairn.info/revue-societes-2006-3-p-39.htm CAIRN]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081226184822/http://www.mort-thanatologie-france.com/Lathanato.htm Thanatology according to Louis-Vincent Thomas]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060910175545/http://rifssso.ca/carriere/thanatologue.php Information about thanatology] doesn't exist
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Category:Academic staff of Cheikh Anta Diop University