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Pierre Deleage Author

Pierre Déléage is an anthropologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He has conducted ethnographic research on shamanism among the Sharanahua in the Amazon, investigated the invention of writing systems by Indigenous peoples in North America, and explored the limits of scientific objectification. He is the author of several books in French, including Lettres mortes: Essai d’anthropologie inversée, Inventer l’écriture, and Le Chant de l’anaconda: L’apprentissage du chamanisme chez les Sharanahua