=?x-unknown?q?30866=3A__=28news=29__Chamberlain=3A__Death_o?==?x-unknown?q?f_G=E9rardBarth=E9l=E9my_=28fwd=29?=

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Greg Chamberlain <GregChamberlain@compuserve.com>
To: Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>

French sociologist, anthropologist, ethnologist and economist Gérard
Barthélémy died in France on 2 August, aged 73, after a long illness.

He wrote several books about Haiti -- the groundbreaking L'UNIVERS RURAL
HAITIEN: LE PAYS EN DEHORS (1989), as well as LES DUVALIERISTES APRES
DUVALIER (1992), DANS LA SPLENDEUR D'UN APRES-MIDI DE L'HISTOIRE (1996),
CREOLES-BOSSALES: CONFLIT EN HAITI (2001) and one for children, HAITI: LA
PERLE NUE (1999), which focused on the country's natural resources and the
threats to them.

He was an original (and often optimistic) thinker and writer about Haiti
(and also a skilled furniture-maker).  He was formerly married to Mimi
Barthélemy, the Haitian storyteller, performer and writer (with whom he
wrote LA PERLE NUE).

He lived in Haiti for more than a decade, for several years as head of the
French aid mission and (1988-91) a teacher at the state university.
Earlier, he was a French government cultural attaché in Latin America.
After Haiti, he was a UN economic consultant in several countries.

Some of his ideas about Haiti appear (in quotes from his work) at:
http://papalagi.blog.lemonde.fr  (in French).


        Greg Chamberlain