Germaine Dieterlen

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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.

Filmography

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