Germaine Dieterlen
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderFemale
Birthday15 May 1903
Died13 November 1999 (age 96)
Place of birthParis, France, EU
Known credits11
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.
The Dreamed Films
2010 · Self
Germaine et ses copains
1996 · herself
Germaine chez elle
1994 · herself
Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death
1981 · Director
Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai
1979 · Director
Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
1977 · herself
The Burial of the Hogon
1973 · Director
Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé
1972 · Director
Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani
1970 · Director
Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo
1967 · Director
Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm
1966 · Director
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