Germaine Dieterlen

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Directing

From

Paris, France, EU

Born

5/15/1903

Age

122

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4

Biography

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 system ...Show More