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Philippe Descola

French anthropologistborn 1949

Supervised 5 doctoral students at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Université Paris sciences et lettres, and EHESS between 2003 and 2018; Wikidata names Claude Lévi-Strauss as doctoral advisor and lists 11 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Philippe Descola, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Students5

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata11

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below1 step

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 17 people: 5 cited by thesis records, 13 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

Sat beside the lineage5

jury member or referee, not advisor