Luis Felipe Sobral

Researcher in residence at the Maison Suger | December 2023 - February 2024
Luis Felipe Sobral

Luis Felipe Sobral is a researcher at Unicamp (Brazil), where he directs the Fapesp-funded "Historiografia da Antropologia" project, and a member of Bérose: Encyclopédie Internationale des Histoires de l'Anthropologie (www.berose.fr) in France. His research focuses on the dissemination of the work of Scottish anthropologist Sir James G. Frazer (1854-1941) in France and the major role played by Lady Frazer (1855-1941). He is currently writing a book on this subject for the "Les Carnets de Bérose" collection.

The project

Title: Lady Frazer and the French publishing world (part II)

More information (FR)

Hosting institution: Cergy Paris Université

Selective Bibliography

  • “Lady Frazer et la diffusion de l’œuvre frazerienne en France”, collection “Les Carnets de Bérose”, Paris, Bérose: Encyclopédie Internationale des Histoires de l’Anthropologie (work in progress) ;
  • “Vertige de l’œuvre, richesse de l’archive”, Les Carnets de l’Imec, nº 20, automne 2023 (sous presse);
  • "Émile Durkheim, “Sobre o totemismo”, édition et traduction de Rafael Faraco Benthien et Luis Felipe Sobral, collection “Biblioteca Durkheimiana”, São Paulo, EDUSP, 2021, 274 pp. ;
  •  “Lady Frazer e seu marido. Gênero e anomalia na história da antropologia”, Cadernos Pagu, nº 54, 2018, e185406 ;
  • (5) “‘Laying the Cards on the Table’”, History of Anthropology Newsletter, 42, 2018 (https://histanthro.org/reviews/laying-the-cards/).
Published at 15 November 2023