Germaine Dieterlen

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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.

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Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai Trailer (1979)

25 June 1979

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 122.

Germaine et ses copains Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

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 half-blind old man.

Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm Trailer (1966)

01 January 1966

The young goat herders from the cliff of Bandiagara practice on the stone drums of their ancestors. An ethnomusicological film experiment describing the subtle plays of the right and left hand of Dogon drummers.

Germaine chez elle Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

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 the 1930s.

Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen Trailer (1977)

01 January 1977

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

Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo Trailer (1967)

01 December 1967

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 Yougo Dogorou.

Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani Trailer (1970)

01 December 1970

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 Amani.

Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé Trailer (1972)

01 December 1972

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

The Burial of the Hogon Trailer (1973)

01 January 1973

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

The Dreamed Films Trailer (2010)

18 March 2010

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

Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death Trailer (1981)

06 July 1981

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, the Sigui.