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  1. Marcel Griaule (16 May 1898 – 23 February 1956) was a French author and anthropologist known for his studies of the Dogon people of West Africa, [1] and for pioneering ethnographic field studies in France. He worked together with Germaine Dieterlen and Jean Rouch on African subjects.

  2. Learn about Marcel Griaule (1898-1956), a pioneer of French ethnographic research in Africa and a founder of the Société des Africanistes. Explore his methods, achievements, and controversies in studying the Dogon culture and mythology.

  3. Aug 28, 2018 · Intensive research on the Dogon began in the 1930s when a multidisciplinary team of French scholars led by the ethnologist Marcel Griaule arrived. These scholars generated an enormous body of literature, including many important works related to art.

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  5. Marcel Griaule has 20 books on Goodreads with 1484 ratings. Marcel Griaules most popular book is Conversations with Ogotemmêli: An Introduction to Dogon...

  6. The author compares his own fieldwork among the Dogon of Mali with the classic studies of Marcel Griaule and finds many discrepancies and problems. He argues that Griaule's texts are not recognizable, productive, or reliable sources of Dogon culture and suggests a model of how they were generated.

  7. Abstract. This article focuses on the theory and methodology of Marcel Griaule, one of the principal ethnographers of the Dogon. In particular, the author examines and critiques Griaules idea and practice of ethnography as “documentary” and “initiation.”.

  8. Dec 5, 2020 · Marcel Griaule (1898–1956) is one of these reference figures, the virtual founder of French-speaking Africanist ethnology, and also the author of Dieu d’eau, published in France in 1948, one of the works of most famous anthropology ever, consisting of a description of the cosmology of the Dogon of Mali.

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