Anne-Marie Peatrik, a geographer and an anthropologist by training, is an Emeritus Research Professor at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the French National Center for Scientific Research, and a member of The Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative (LESC – Centre for Ethnology and Comparative Sociology- University of Paris Nanterre). She has conducted numerous field studies in Kenya. A specialist in the age and generation-set systems of eastern Africa, she has expanded the scope of her studies to embrace a critical anthropology of ages and generations, and developed a program on the history of the ethnology and anthropology of knowledge in eastern Africa.