Cuisinier, Jeanne A(dele) L(ucie)(1890-?)
Cuisinier, Jeanne A(dele) L(ucie)(1890-?)
French anthropologist and research worker at the French National Center for Scientific Research, who also wrote on parapsychological subjects. She was born October 30, 1890, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, and studied at the Ecole des Langues Orientales Vivantes, Paris, the Institut de Phonétique Malais, and the Sorbonne, where she received her doctorate in 1944. Cuisinier studied magic beliefs and rituals among Asian peoples and published books on social geography and sociology, sacred dance in Indochina and Indonesia, and the shadow play in Kelantan. She also reviewed books for the International Journal of Parapsychology.
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