Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
11
Gender
Female
Birthday
1903-05-15
Day of Death
1999-11-13 (96 years old)
Place of Birth
Paris, France, EU
Also Known As
Germaine Dieterlen
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.
