Germaine Dieterlen
Birthday: 1903-05-15
Place of Birth: Paris, France, EU
Biography: 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.
Movies
The Dreamed Films
Belgian filmmaker Eric Pauwels' meditation on dream, travel and film....
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Germaine chez elle
In front of Jean Rouch's camera, Germaine Dieterlen recalls her ethnographic itinerary, at the Musée...
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Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
Germaine Dierterlen talks about Dogon mythology at a conference on the Bandiagara cliffs. The Songo ...
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Germaine et ses copains
In Sangha, through the window of her house, Germaine greets Djamgouno, her main informant. He then t...
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