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Images in Flowers
It is thanks to the fortunate initiative of a few mutual friends that I met once or twice, but too rarely, Jack Goody: in Paris, at Lucette Valensi’s, or at his home in Cambridge, where I visited him a few years ago, together with Christiane Klapisch Zuber. What wouldn’t I have done to be able to spend more time listening to him telling of his countless voyages and thus rediscover the dazzling sensation felt while reading his books. Thanks to them, I had the impression that Jack had been my traveling companion right from my first steps as a historian of medieval Europe. And as I have never been indifferent to ethnology and anthropology, how could I ignore this anthropologist with a passion for history, ...
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