Germaine Dieterlen

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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Germaine chez elle

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Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen

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Germaine et ses copains

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Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo

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Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani

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Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé

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The Burial of the Hogon

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Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm

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Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death

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Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai

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