Maurice Delafosse
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Maurice Delafosse (December 20, 1870 - November 13th, 1926) was a French ethnographer and colonial official who also worked in the field of the languages of Africa. In a review of his daughter's autobiography of him he was described as "one of the most outstanding French colonial administrators and ethnologists of his time."[1] Delafosse had disagreements with the French government over the administration of French Africa, and, as a result, was "more or less banned from the colonies" for a large part of his life.[2]
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- ^ Cohen, William B. (1978). "Untitled". The International Journal of African Historical Studies 11 (2): 302-305. DOI:10.2307/217447. ISSN 03617882. Retrieved on 2007-03-29.
- ^ Arnaut, Karel. Maurice Delafosse. Entre orientalisme et ethnographie : l'itinéraire d'un africaniste (1870-1926). Cahiers d'études africaines. Retrieved on March 29, 2007.
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