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Griaule, Marcel

Born May 16, 1898, in Aisy-sur-Armançon, in the department of Yonne; died Feb. 22, 1956, in Paris. French ethnologist. Professor of the University of Paris (from 1942). Secretary general of the Society of Af-ricanists.

An organizer of five expeditions to Africa, Griaule devoted his main studies to the spiritual culture and archaeology of the peoples of West Africa. These works expressed strong antiracist sentiments. However, while demanding respect for African civilization, Griaule reduced its essence to religious beliefs and mythology and actually advocated the preservation of those archaic elements of African culture that hinder the development of a new Africa.

WORKS

Les Flambeurs d’hommes. Paris, 1934.
Masques dogons. Paris, 1938.
Dieu d’eau. Entretiens avec Ogotemmêli. Paris, 1948.
“Fouilles dans le région du Tchad.” Journal de la Société desAfricanistes, 1948, vol. 18; 1950, vol. 20. (With J. P. Lebeuf.)
Méthode de l’ethnographie. Paris, 1957.

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No references found	The extraordinarily complex rendering by Marcel Griaule (1960) of Dogon concepts of human origins and the constitution of the individual is well known. Couples or doubles? Representations of twins in the Arts of Africa by Peek, Philip M. / African Arts Trained as a civil engineer in Paris in the late '30s, Rouch was a regular at the then newly founded Cinematheque Francaise housed in the Musee de I'Homme, where he began studying anthropology with Marcel Griaule during the war. OUT OF AFRICA by PINCHBECK, DANIEL / Artforum International A Frenchman, Marcel Griaule, encountered the Dogon and found that for 500 years the Dogon had plotted and ceremoniously danced the orbit of a star that is now called Sirius B. Afrocentricity, Islam, and El Hajji Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X) by Kazi-Ferrouillet, K. / The Black Collegian	Marbut, Curtis Fletcher Marc Marc Ancel Marc Andreessen Marc Antony Marc Bloch Marc Chagall Marc Drumaux Marc Guillaume Albert Vadier Marc Rene de Montalembert Marc René de Montalembert Marc, Franz Marcantonio, Vito Marcasite Marceau Marceau, Marcel Marcel Marcel Arland Marcel Bertrand Marcel Cachin Marcel Carne Marcel Carné Marcel Cohen Marcel Deprez Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert Marcel Griaule Marcel Lajos Breuer Marcel Lods Marcel Marceau Marcel Mauss Marcel Prevost Marcel Prévost Marcel Proust Marcel Riesz Marcel Sembat Marcel, Étienne Marcel, Gabriel Marcel, Gabriel Honore Marcel, Gabriel Honoré Marceli Handelsman Marceli Nencki Marceli Nowotko Marceline Desbordes-Valmore Marcella Marcella Sembrich Marcellinus Ammianus Marcello Caetano Marcello Malpighi Marcello Mastroianni Marcello Piacentini Marcellus	MARCAV MARCC MARCCA MARCCH MARCCO MARCD Marce Marceau Marceau Marceau Evans Johnson Architects Marceau, Marcel Marceau, Marcel MARCEE marcel marcel Marcel Arland Marcel Bertrand Marcel Bloch Marcel Breuer Marcel Breuer Marcel Cachin Marcel Carne Marcel Carné Marcel Cohen Marcel Deprez Marcel Duchamp Marcel Duchamp Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert Marcel Griaule Marcel Lajos Breuer Marcel Lajos Breuer Marcel Lods Marcel Loubens Barlangkutato Egyesulet Marcel Mangel Marcel Mangel Marcel Marceau Marcel Marceau Marcel Marco Marcel Marco Marcel marseau Marcel marseau Marcel Mauss Marcel Minnaert Marcel Pagnol Marcel Prevost Marcel Prévost Marcel Proust Marcel Proust Marcel Riesz Marcel Sembat marcel wave marcel wave marcel waves marcel waves Marcel, Étienne Marcel, Gabriel Marcel, Gabriel Honore Marcel, Gabriel Honoré Marceli Handelsman

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The extraordinarily complex rendering by Marcel Griaule (1960) of Dogon concepts of human origins and the constitution of the individual is well known.

Couples or doubles? Representations of twins in the Arts of Africa by Peek, Philip M. / African Arts

Trained as a civil engineer in Paris in the late '30s, Rouch was a regular at the then newly founded Cinematheque Francaise housed in the Musee de I'Homme, where he began studying anthropology with Marcel Griaule during the war.

OUT OF AFRICA by PINCHBECK, DANIEL / Artforum International

A Frenchman, Marcel Griaule, encountered the Dogon and found that for 500 years the Dogon had plotted and ceremoniously danced the orbit of a star that is now called Sirius B.

Afrocentricity, Islam, and El Hajji Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X) by Kazi-Ferrouillet, K. / The Black Collegian