BERNOT, Lucien. Gien (Loiret) 2.12.1919 — Brantes (Vaucluse) 14.7.1993. French Anthropologist. Son of farmer, grew up in country, from the age of 14 worked as typographist. After WW II studied Chinese at É.L.O.V. (diploma 1947), then ethnography and Tibetan at É.P.H.É. In 1947-64 research scholar in C.N.R.S. In 1961-64 also chargé de conférences, 1964-78 directeur d’études at É.P.H.É. Ph.D. 1965. In 1979-85 Professor of “Sociographie de l’Asie du Sud-Est” at Collège de France. Early fieldwork in France, then 1951-52 and 1959-60 in the Chittagong Hills in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). Married Denise Bernot (1922–2016), a Burmese scholar, with whom he collaborated.
Publications: With R.Blancard: Nouville, un village français. 7+447 p. Travaux et Mémoires de l’Institut d’ethnologie 57. P. 1953.
– With D. Bernot: Les Khyang des Collines de Chittagong, matériaux pour l’étude linguistique des Chin. 148 p. L’Homme N.S. 3. P. 1958 (Khyang = Southern Chin).
– “Ethnic groups of Chittagong Hill Tracts”, Social research in East Pakistan. Dacca 1960, 113-140, 4 pl.
– Diss. publ. Les paysans arakanais du Pakistan oriental; l’histoire, le monde végétal et l’organisation sociale des réfugiés Marma. 793 p. P. 1967.
– Les Cak, contribution à l’étude ethnographique d’une population de langue loi. 267 p. P. 1967; a few further works.
Sources: college-de-france.fr with small photo; French Wikipédia.
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