Florence Brunois-Pasina

Ethnologist and CNRS researcher at the Social Anthropology Laboratory France

Florence Brunois-Pasina trained in European and International Law (Master 2) at Paris II and the University of International Law in Vienna (Austria), then in Social Anthropology and Ethnographic Film at Paris X, Paris VII and the École des Hautes Études, where she defended her doctoral thesis in 2001 under the supervision of Maurice Godelier. Alongside her, she had the privilege of following the demanding teaching of André-Georges Haudricourt step by step in the gardens, forests and flat on rue d’Assas during the last years of his life, before moving to New Guinea where she learned about the world in a different way from the Kasua. Recruited by the CNRS in 2003, she joined the Eco-anthropology Laboratory at the Museum of Natural History, directed by Serge Bahuchet. In 2008, she joined Philippe Descola’s Anthropology of Nature Chair and the Social Anthropology Laboratory.