Calame-Griaule, Geneviève
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- Griaule, Geneviève Calame-
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1924-11-19
Death Date
- 2013-08-23
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1951
- Organization: Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France)
Birth Place
- Paris (France)
Associated Language
- French
Associated Language
- Niger-Kordofanian (Other)
Associated Language
Associated Language
- Dogon
Field of Activity
Dogon (African people)
Dogon language
Ethnology--Mali
Anthropological linguistics
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Sources
- found: Her Ethnologie et langage, 1965.
- found: Wikipedia, Mar. 16, 2014(Geneviève Calame-Griaule; b. Paris Nov. 19, 1924; d. Fontainebleau Aug. 23, 2013; French ethnologist, famous for her works on the Dogon; daughter of ethnologist Marcel Griaule, who she accompanied to research the Dogon in French Sudan (now Mali) in 1946; joined CNRS in 1951, part of research group ERA 246 "Langage et culture en Afrique de l'Ouest", became director of that group, then research director of CNRS; traveled to Tuareg and Isawaghen areas of Niger in the 1970s; one of the founders of French ethnolinguistics; was married to violinist Blaise Calame)
- found: One thousand languages, 2008, viewed online Mar. 15, 2014:p. 83 (Dogon ethnic group, speak about 15 languages; one of their languages, the Toro So variety spoken in Sanga, is described in the work of Marcel Griaule)
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Change Notes
- 1980-08-26: new
- 2023-09-06: revised
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