Jean Malaurie donated the archives of Terre humaine to the National Library of France. The scientist, explorer and writer died at the age of 101.
He has always defended the Inuit and minorities in general. In 2005, he gave an interview to Le Figaro on the occasion of the donation of his archives to the BNF. “I have always been anti-totalitarian. I am not a Marxist, nor a structuralist. Nor is it Durkheimist’, he says. The time of Kafka or Stefan Zweig is moving away, he adds.