Germaine Dieterlen

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.

Cast

The Dreamed Films

(Self)

Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen

(herself)

Germaine chez elle

(herself)

Germaine et ses copains

(herself)
Crew

Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo

(Director)

Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani

(Director)

Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé

(Director)

The Burial of the Hogon

(Director)

Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm

(Director)

Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death

(Director)

Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai

(Director)