Jean La Fontaine

Jean Sybil La Fontaine FRAI (born 1 November 1931) is a British anthropologist and emeritus professor of the London School of Economics.

[1] She has done research in Africa and the UK, on topics including ritual, gender, child abuse,[2] witchcraft and satanism.

In 1994 she wrote a government report: The Extent and Nature of Organised and Ritual Abuse.

[4] After teaching at King's College, Newcastle (1961, part-time), Lovanium University, Zaire (1962–1963) and Birkbeck College (1965–1968), La Fontaine was appointed Reader in Anthropology at the London School of Economics in 1968 and Professor of Anthropology there in 1978.

[4] Professor La Fontaine was president of the Royal Anthropological Institute from 1985 to 1987.