Germaine Dieterlen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Germaine Dieterlen

French anthropologist

Date of Birth: 15-May-1903

Place of Birth: Valleraugue, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 13-Nov-1999

Profession: ethnologist, filmmaker, anthropologist, essayist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Germaine Dieterlen (15 May 1903 in Paris – 13 November 1999 in Paris) was a French anthropologist.
She was a student of Marcel Mauss, worked with noted French anthropologist 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.
She is most noted for her work among the Dogon and the Bambara of Mali, having lived with them for over twenty years, often in collaboration with Marcel Griaule, with whom she wrote an important book entitled The Pale Fox (1965).