Germaine Dieterlen
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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.
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The Dreamed Films
2010 · Movie
Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai
1979 · Movie
Germaine chez elle
1994 · Movie
Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death
1981 · Movie
Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo
1967 · Movie
Germaine et ses copains
1996 · Movie
Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
1977 · Movie
Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani
1970 · Movie
Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé
1972 · Movie
The Burial of the Hogon
1973 · Movie
Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm
1966 · Movie