Germaine Dieterlen

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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.

Personal Info

• Known For Directing
• Gender Female
• Birthday May 15, 1903 (96 years old)
• Died November 13, 1999
• Place of Birth Paris, France, EU