Published on 19 September 2024
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The archives of magistrate Robert Pageard (1927-2020) at the Claude Lévi-Strauss library

Millet huts and granaries, Upper Volta, Zorgo. - Photo: Ministère de la France d'Outre-Mer. collège de France. Archives of the Social Anthropology Laboratory.

The archives of Robert Pageard (1927-2020) were deposited with the Claude Lévi-Strauss Library in 2001. Although Robert Pageard was not an ethnologist, his career as a magistrate in Mali and then Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) led him to collect a wealth of data on local populations, particularly the Mossi. Notes, correspondence and documentation have been inventoried and are presented to you on Colligere, the Collège de France's library and archive notebook.

Political map of Mossi country (Robert Pageard Archives)
Political map of Mossi country© Collège de France. Archives of the Social Anthropology Laboratory.
Case law (Robert Pageard Archives)
Case law no. 42© Collège de France. Archives of the Social Anthropology Laboratory.