Germaine Dieterlen
Personal information
- Known for
- Directing
- Known credits
- 11
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- May 15, 1903
- Died
- November 13, 1999
- Place of birth
- Paris, France, EU
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.
