Germaine Dieterlen was a French anthropologist. She was a student of Marcel Mauss, worked with noted French anthropologists Marcel Griaule (1898-1956) and Jean Rouch, wrote on a large range of ethnographic topics and made pioneering contributions to the study of myths, initiations, techniques (particularly "descriptive ethnography"), graphic systems, objects, classifications, ritual and social structure.
KNOWN FOR
Germaine et ses copains
1996
Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo
1967
The Dreamed Films
2010
Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
1977
Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai
1979
The Burial of the Hogon
1973
Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé
1972
Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani
1970
Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death
1981
Germaine chez elle
1994
Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm
1966
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Acting
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Directing
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