![]() ![]() In addition to publishing over 170 papers and chapters, de Heusch authored over fifteen monographs, of which several have been translated into various languages. ![]() ![]() He was an expert on many things, including myths, rites, sacred kingship, sacrifice, trance, symbolism, kinship, religion, and art. He then became a passionate proponent of Claude Lévi-Strauss and structuralism, which he applied to his own field of expertise, Central Africa and Bantu cultures. As a social anthropologist, he was a student of Marcel Griaule in Paris. ![]() As a young writer, he was in contact with the Surrealists and became involved in the well-known artistic avant-garde group CoBrA (an acronym for Copenhagen–Brussels–Amsterdam). He took an active part in several of the major movements that shaped Europe’s intellectual landscape after the Second World War. 2012) was a distinguished social anthropologist, filmmaker, art connoisseur, and prominent public figure, especially within Francophone spheres of influence. A polymath in the true sense of the term, the Belgian Luc de Heusch (b. ![]()
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