Perrot, Claude Hélène

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Name (Latin)
Perrot, Claude Hélène
Other forms of name
Perrot, Claude H. (Claude Hélène)
Date of birth
1928-09-13
Date of death
2019-07-16
Associated country
Côte d'Ivoire
France
Field of activity
Côte d'Ivoire--History
Anyi (African people)--History
Occupation
Historians
Associated Language
fre
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 27070084
Wikidata: Q49141640
Library of congress: n 84227856
Sources of Information
  • Relire Yves Person, 2015:title page (Claude-Hélène Perrot) page 461 (has written the history of the Anyi-Ndényé and the Eotilé of Côte d'Ivoire before colonization; she succeeded Yves Person as professor at Université Paris I)
  • Her Les Anyi-Ndenye et le pouvoir aux 18e et 19e siècles, 1982:t.p. (Claude Hélène Perrot) cover (Claude H. Perrot) p. 4 of cover (Claude-Hélène Perrot, assistant teacher, Université de Paris I)
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Wikipedia description:

Claude-Hélène Perrot (13 September 1928 – 16 July 2019) was a French historian and Africanist who specialized in the history of Côte d'Ivoire. She served as a professor of contemporary African history at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University from 1983 to 1993. Perrot's main areas of research concerned the history of the Akan of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana before colonization, mainly the Anyi and the Eotile; the use of oral tradition by historians; as well as relations between traditional African religions and political power. She was honored as Commander, Order of Ivory Merit.

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