Luc de Heusch
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Luc de Heusch (born Brussels, 7 May 1927) is a Belgian filmmaker, writer, and anthropologist, professor emeritus at the Free University of Brussels.
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Life
Luc de Heusch began his career in film in 1947 as assistant to Henri Storck. From 1949 to 1951 he lived in an artists' commune, the Ateliers du Marais. In 1951, under the pseudonym Luc Zangrie, he directed Perséphone, the only film produced by the CoBrA artistic movement.
In 1953 and 1954 he carried out anthropological fieldwork in the Belgian Congo. Like Henri Storck and Charles Dekeukeleire, he also made documentary films about the Congo.
From 1955 to 1992 he was professor of social and cultural anthropology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
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- Essais sur le symbolisme de l'inceste royal en Afrique, Brussels, 1958.
- The Cinema and Social Science. A Survey of Ethnographic and Sociological Films, UNESCO, 1962.
- Le pouvoir et le sacré, Brussels, 1962.
- Le Rwanda et la civilisation interlacustre. Études d'anthropologie historique et structurale, Brussels, 1966.
- Pourquoi l'épouser? et autres essais, Paris, 1971.
- English translation by Janet Lloyd as Why Marry Her? Society and Symbolic Structures, Cambridge, 1981.
- Le roi ivre ou l'origine de l'État. Mythes et rites bantous I, Paris, 1972.
- English translation by Roy Willis as The Drunken King, or, The Origin of the State, Bloomington, Indiana, 1982.
- Rois nés d'un cœur de vache. Mythes et rites bantous II, Gallimard, ColI. Les Essais, Paris, 1982.
- Sacrifice in Africa: A Structuralist Approach, translated by Linda O'Brien and Alice Morton, Manchester, 1985.
- Ecrits sur la royauté sacrée, Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, 1987.
- Du pouvoir: anthropologie politique des sociétés d'Afrique centrale, Nanterre, 2002.
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- Perséphone (1951)
- Fête chez les Hamba (1955)
- Ruanda (1956)
- Michel De Ghelderode (1957)
- Six mille habitants (1958)
- Gestes du repas (1958)
- Magritte ou La leçon de choses (1960)
- Sur les traces du renard pâle (Recherches en pays Dogon, 1931–1983) (1984)
- Une république devenue folle: Rwanda 1894-1994 (1995)
- Quand j'étais Belge (1999)
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