Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Michel Cartry (1931 2008) was a French Africanist and anthopologist of religion. Cartry studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he met Félix Guattari in June 1952 and was "initiated [...] into Trotsky" by him. He also came to know Gilles Deleuze, taking his class on Hume in 1957. He was one of several young philosophers - including Alfred Adler, Pierre Clastres and Lucien Sebag - who left the French Communist Party after 1956 and turned towards anthropology, attending the seminar of Claude Levi-Strauss. George Balandier found him a job monitoring research literature on Africa at the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) at Sciences Po, where he was joined by Pierre Bonnafé and Emmanuel Terray. After travelling to Upper Volta in 1962, he developed a particular interest in religion, studying ritual and divination. He worked as a researcher at the CNRS before succeeding Germaine Dieterlen as Director of Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. As a Director of CNRS-EPHE, he led a research programme into 'Systems of Thought in Black Africa' until 1991.