Dehouve Danièle
Ethnology
Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (LESC)
France
Biography
Danièle Dehouve is an anthropologist and ethnohistorian specialising in Mexico. She is Directeur de recherche (Research professor) at the CNRS, Directeur d’études (Professor) at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), and is responsible for courses in Nahuatl language (an Aztec language) at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Paris). She has also directed documentary films on the Indians of Mexico.
Research Interest
Contemporary Mexican political anthropology, religious anthropology of the Mesoamerican rituals, history of the colonisation and evangelisation of Mexico, ethnology of the Indians of Mexico, study of the Nahuatl and Tlapanec languages, study of Aztec civilisation, archeo-mathematics
Publications
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2009, La dernière chasse au cerf, film by Danièle Dehouve, 50 minutes, Tonaltepec Production.
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2010, Des nombres pour les dieux, film by Danièle Dehouve, 48 minutes, Tonaltepec Production.
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2011, L’imaginaire des nombres chez les anciens Mexicains (Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes).
