Robert Jaulin (7 March 1928,
Le Cannet,
Alpes-Maritimes – 21 November 1996,
Grosrouvre) was a French
ethnologist. After several journeys to
Chad, between 1954 and 1959, among the
Sara people, he published in 1967
La Mort Sara (The Sara Death) in which he exposed the various
initiation rites through which he had passed himself, and closely analyzed Sara
geomancy. In
La Paix blanche (The White peace, 1970), he redefined the notion of
ethnocide in relation to the extermination by the
Western world of the
Bari culture, located between
Venezuela and
Colombia. If a
genocide designs the physical extermination of a people, an ethnocide refers to the extermination of a culture.