Germaine Dieterlen

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.

  • Title: Germaine Dieterlen
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  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1903-05-15
  • Place of Birth: Paris, France, EU
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Germaine Dieterlen Movies

  • 2010
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    The Dreamed Films
    The Dreamed Films

    7.3 2010 HD

    Belgian filmmaker Eric Pauwels' meditation on dream, travel and film.

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  • 1977
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    Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
    Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen

    1 1977 HD

    Germaine Dierterlen talks about Dogon mythology at a conference on the Bandiagara cliffs. The Songo canopy is a sacred site in Bandiagara. Its walls...

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  • 1994
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    Germaine chez elle
    Germaine chez elle

    1 1994 HD

    In front of Jean Rouch's camera, Germaine Dieterlen recalls her ethnographic itinerary, at the Musée de l'Homme, in Mali and in the Paris of...

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  • 1996
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    Germaine et ses copains
    Germaine et ses copains

    1 1996 HD

    In Sangha, through the window of her house, Germaine greets Djamgouno, her main informant. He then translates for her a conversation she has with a...

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  • 1967
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    Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo
    Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo

    1 1967 HD

    Beginning of the sextenary festival of the Sigui among the Dogon of the Bandiagara cliff in Mali. This first ceremony takes place at the village of...

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  • 1970
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    Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani
    Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani

    1 1970 HD

    The fourth year of the Sigui ceremonies, celebrated every sixty years by the Dogons of the Bandiagara cliffs, Mali, takes place in the village of...

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  • 1972
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    Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé
    Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé

    1 1972 HD

    The sixth year of the Sigui ceremonies, celebrated every sixty years by the Dogons of the Bandiagara cliffs, Mali.

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  • 1973
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    The Burial of the Hogon
    The Burial of the Hogon

    1 1973 HD

    Burial of the Hogon of Sanga, Dogon religious leader of Lower Ogol, Mali.

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  • 1966
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    Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm
    Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm

    1 1966 HD

    The young goat herders from the cliff of Bandiagara practice on the stone drums of their ancestors. An ethnomusicological film experiment describing...

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  • 1981
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    Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death
    Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death

    1 1981 HD

    Sigui 1967-1973: invention de la parole et de la mort is a never-before-seen synthesis of the roaming ceremony of the Dogon people living in Mali,...

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  • 1979
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    Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai
    Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai

    1 1979 HD

    In 1972, the Dogon of the Bandiagara cliff in Mali celebrated the funeral of Anaï Dolo, head of the Bongo Masks Society, who died at the age of...

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