Germaine Dieterlen
May 15, 1903 (122 years old) in
Paris, France, EU
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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Credits
- 2010 · The Dreamed Films as Self
- 1996 · Germaine et ses copains as herself
- 1994 · Germaine chez elle as herself
- 1977 · Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen as herself