Germaine Dieterlen [1663968]
Age: 96 years
Birthday: 1903-05-15
Deathday: 1999-11-13
Birthplace: Paris, France, EU
Credits: 4
Popularity: 0.0214
Links: Homepage, IMDB
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.