Germaine Dieterlen
- Directing
- May 15, 1903 · Paris, France, EU
- November 13, 1999
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 systems, objects, classifications, ritual and social structure.
Known for
Filmography
- The Dreamed Films · Self
- Germaine et ses copains · Self
- Germaine chez elle · Self
- Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death · Director
- Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai · Director
- Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen · Self
- The Burial of the Hogon · Director
- Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé · Director
- Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani · Director
- Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo · Director
- Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm · Director