Ganay, Solange de
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- Summary
- Solange de Ganay was a French ethnologist focusing on the Dogon people of Mali and West Africa. Born Marie Madeleine Jacqueline Solange de Ganay to an aristocratic family, she gained an interest in African affairs through traveling in the region and meeting the individuals who lived there. In the 1930s, de Ganay took ethnographic classes with Marcel Mauss at École pratique des hautes études, and she was one of the first women to work in the field with Marcel Griaule. During World War II, she worked as an ambulance driver while also finishing her post-secondary studies. 1946 saw her return to field work, organizing annual voyages to Mali until an accident in 1956 limited her travel. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Female [1][3][4]
- Unknown [2]
- Born
- 1902 [4]
- 1903 [2]
- Birth Place
- Salbris [4]
- Died
- 2003 [2]
- 2003-08-25 [4]
- Death Place
- 8th arrondissement of Paris [4]
- Country
- France [2]
- Language
- French [3]
- Occupation
- ethnologist [4]
- botanical collector [4]
- Profession
- Ethnologin [2]
- Employer
- Institut d'ethnologie [4]
- Educated at
- 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
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