Daniel Fabre (1947-2016) was a leading anthropologist of Mediterranean
Europe. He was also a folklorist, a historian, a literary scholar, and a
cultural activist. Acclaimed, even cherished, in France, and especially in
his native Midi, his work is largely unknown in the English-speaking world.
This appreciation is designed to introduce some of his numerous research
interests to Anglophone readers—especially his more folkloric scholarship
on Occitan folktales, carnival customs, male youth groups, and peasantmemoirists. It draws in particular on the publications that have appeared
since his untimely death.
