Germaine Tillion: the facts of her life and "double apprenticeship"

Marcel Mauss's most notable student

At first, Marcel Mauss read the ethnography of his day voraciously; it was a major part of his work with Henri Hubert on comparative religion. From the mid-1920s, he became the main teacher of France’s first ethnographers. I consider his teaching style and public performances, both featuring orality; Mauss held that “speech is the unity of thought and a…