Bertrand Hell

About the author

Born in 1953, Bertrand Hell is a French anthropologist and ethnologist specializing in shamanism and spirit possession. He held the chair of ethnology at the University of Franche-Comté from 1994 to 2014 and has also taught at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). His work places him among the leading French scholars engaged with altered states, ritual, and the anthropology of the sacred.