| LC control no. | n 50051330 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Calame-Griaule, Geneviève |
| Variant(s) | Griaule, Geneviève Calame- |
| Associated country | France Mali |
| Birth date | 1924-11-19 |
| Death date | 2013-08-23 |
| Place of birth | Paris (France) |
| Place of death | Fontainebleau (France) |
| Field of activity | Dogon (African people) Dogon language Ethnology--Mali Anthropological linguistics |
| Affiliation | Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) |
| Profession or occupation | Ethnologists Linguists |
| Found in | Her Ethnologie et langage, 1965. 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) 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) |
| Associated language | fre nic Dogon dts |
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