Elisabeth ANSTETT
CNRS Research Director
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Assignment
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Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Ethique et SantéADES / UMR 7268Aix-Marseille Université27 boulevard Jean Moulin13005 MARSEILLE
Disciplines
Research topics
Keywords
- Existence of the dead
- Culture
- Mass death
- Mortality crisis
Populations
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Research activities
Elisabeth Anstett is a social anthropologist and director of research at the CNRS. Her work focuses on the social and cultural treatment of the corpse, and more specifically on funerary practices and processes of patrimonialization of human remains in contemporary contexts marked by episodes of mortality crisis.