Person

Germaine Dieterlen

Directing · 1903–1999 · 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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  The Dreamed Films

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  Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai

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• Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death

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  Germaine chez elle

  herself

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  Germaine et ses copains

  herself

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  Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen

  herself

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  Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo

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• Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé

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  Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani

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  The Burial of the Hogon

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• 2010The Dreamed FilmsSelf
• 1996Germaine et ses copainsherself
• 1994Germaine chez elleherself
• 1981Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and DeathDirector
• 1979Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old AnaiDirector
• 1977Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlenherself
• 1973The Burial of the HogonDirector
• 1972Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of YaméDirector
• 1970Sigui 1970: The Clamours of AmaniDirector
• 1967Sigui 1967: L'enclume de YougoDirector
• 1966Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in RhythmDirector