Caillet Laurence

Biography

Laurence Caillet studied both orientalism and ethnology, and has a PhD from the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO / L’Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales) as well as an HDR (Habilitation à diriger des recherches / accreditation to supervise doctoral thesis) from the EHESS (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales / School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences). She belonged to a team of Japan specialists associated with the Collège de France before joining the LESC in 1993 as a professor at the University of Paris West Nanterre La Défense.

Research Interest

Comparative epistemology, religious anthropology, anthropology of modernity, biographical method, history of Japan’s Japanese ethnology