Arnold van Gennep (1873–1957), the French ethnographer and folklorist, was a great scholar in the classical sense, a founding figure of both anthropology and folklore studies, in spite of a blocked academic career.

Biography

Van Gennep was born in Württemberg, southwestern Germany, into ...

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