Maurice E.F. Bloch ya iku ahli antropologi saka Caen, Prancis kalahiran 21 Oktober 1939. Awité, Bloch njupuk pendhidhikan sarjana (BA) ing London School of Economics (1961). Sabanjuré ing Universitas Cambridge lan oléh gelar Ph.D (1967). Bloch naté nglakoni panlitian lapangan ing Madagaskar ing taun 1964, 1971, lan 1988. Bloch wis nulis karya-karya antropologis kayadéné "Placing the Dead. Tombs, Ancestral Villages, and Kinship Organization in Madagascar" (1971), (1986) "From Blessing to Violence: History and Ideology in the Circumcision Ritual of the Merina of Madagascar", (1992) "Prey into Hunter: The Politics of Religious Experience", lan (1998) "How We Think They Think: Anthropological Approaches to Cognition, Memory and Literacy". Bloch duwé pisumbangan ya iku manggih analisa psikologi kanggo bab kritik antropologi. Amarga iku dhèwèké karenan lan ahli ing kognitif manungsa.