MARANDA, Pierre

MARANDA, Pierre. Canadian, b. 1930. Genres: Anthropology/Ethnology, Information science/Computers, Language/Linguistics, Mythology/Folklore. Career: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Research Fellow, 1964-68; Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, Research Director, 1968-69; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Professor of Anthropology (Faculty member, 1969-); University Laval, Quebec, Research Professor, 1975-. Visiting Professor, College de France, Paris, 1975, and Universidade Federal Rio de Janeiro, 1983. Publications: (with E.K. Maranda) Structural Models in Folklore, 1962; (with E.K. Maranda) Structural Models in Folklore and Transformational Essays, 1971; Introduction to Anthropology: A Self-Guide, 1972; French Kinship: Structure and History, 1974; Dialogue conjugal, 1985; Discan: A Computer System for Content and Discourse Analysis, 1987; (with F. Nze-Nguema) L'Unite dans la diversite culturelle: Une Geste bantu. Tome 1: Le Sens des symboles fang, mbede et eshira, 1993. EDITOR: (with J. Pouillion) Echanges et Communications, 2 vols., 1970; (with E.K. Maranda) Structural Analysis of Oral Tradition, 1971; Mythology, 1972; Soviet Structure Folkloristics, vol. 1, 1974, Symbolic Production Symbolique, 1977; The Social Appropriation of Logic, 1978; The Double Twist: From Ethnography to Morphodynamics, 2001. Address: Dept. d'Anthropologie, University Laval, Quebec, Canada G1K 7P4. Online address: pmaranda@videotron.ca; www.oceanie.org