page_title: Germaine Dieterlen
hierarchical_section_title: Germaine Dieterlen
caption_attribution_description: English: Germaine Dieterlen in the film Paroles
context_page_description: Germaine Dieterlen was a French anthropologist.
  She was a student of Marcel Mauss, worked with noted French anthropologist Marcel Griaule and Jean Rouch, wrote on a large range of ethnographic topics and made pioneering contributions to the study of myths, initiations, techniques, graphic systems, objects, classifications, ritual and social structure.
  She is most noted for her work among the Dogon and the Bambara of Mali, having lived with them for over twenty years, often in collaboration with Marcel Griaule, with whom she wrote an important book entitled The Pale Fox.
context_section_description: Germaine Dieterlen (15 May 1903 in Paris – 13 November 1999 in Paris) was a French anthropologist. 
  She was a student of Marcel Mauss, worked with noted French anthropologist 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.  
  She is most noted for her work among the Dogon and the Bambara of Mali, having lived with them for over twenty years, often in collaboration with Marcel Griaule, with whom she wrote an important book entitled The Pale Fox (1965).
caption: Germaine Dieterlen in the film Paroles
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