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Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan

French-Nigerien anthropologistborn 1941

Wikidata names Georges Balandier and Jean Rouch as doctoral advisors and lists 9 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 5 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata9

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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 9 people: 9 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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