Dieterlen, Germaine
Contributed to
fa16The souls of the Dogons
The souls of the DogonsBook 1942
fa08An essay on the religion of the Bambara
An essay on the religion of the Bambarabook chapter 1951
fa16Sacrifice et traitement des victimes chez les Dogon
Sacrifice et traitement des victimes chez les Dogonarticle 1985
fa16The pale fox
The pale foxBook 1986
fa16The Dogon
The Dogonessay 1954
- Summary
- 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, graphic systems, objects, classifications, ritual and social structure. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Female [1][3][4][5]
- Unknown [2]
- Born
- 1903 [2]
- 1903-05-15 [4]
- Birth Place
- 17th arrondissement of Paris [4]
- Died
- 1999 [2]
- 1999-11-13 [4]
- Death Place
- Paris [3]
- 7th arrondissement of Paris [4]
- Country
- France [2]
- Language
- French [3]
- Occupation
- anthropologist [4]
- ethnologist [4]
- essayist [4]
- filmmaker [4]
- Profession
- Ethnologin [2]
- Educated at
- École nationale des langues orientales vivantes [4]
- École pratique des hautes études [4]
- Country of Education
- France [4]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [4]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Wikidata
- 5. Library of Congress
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