| LC control no. | n 2003111349 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Rouche, Jean |
| Associated country | France |
| Located | Niger |
| Birth date | 1917-05-31 |
| Death date | 2004-02-18 |
| Place of birth | Paris (France) |
| Place of death | Birni Nkonni (Niger) |
| Field of activity | Ethnographic films Songhai (African people) |
| Affiliation | Musée de l'Homme (Paris, France) |
| Profession or occupation | Motion picture producers and directors Ethnologists |
| Found in | Delvolvé, Jean-Louis. French arbitration law and practice, 2003: CIP t.p. (Jean Rouche, avocat au Barreau de Paris) Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed April 20, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Rouche, Jean; ethnographer, documentary filmmaker; born 31 May 1917 in Paris, France; was interested in Songhai culture and enrolled in an anthropology doctoral program in France; spent a year exploring the Niger River (1946); filmed a group of Mandinka hunters on Lake Debo during their Hippopotamus hunt; over the next fifty years, he made more than seventy films and wrote almost twenty books about West Africa and the Songhai; taught seminars at the Musée de l'Homme, Paris; was celebrated in a retrospective of his work in Niamey (1986-1987) entitled Jean Rouche: Seventy Years/Seventy Films; died 18 February 2004 in Birni Nkonni, Niger) |
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