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Paulme, Denise

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Personal name headingPaulme, Denise
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Variant(s)Schaeffer, Denise
Associated countryFrance
Associated placeMali Guinea Côte d'Ivoire
Birth date1909-05-04
Death date1998-02-14
Place of birthParis (France)
Place of deathParis (France)
Field of activityAnthropology Ethology Dogon (African people) Kissi (African people) Baga (African people) Bété (African people) Lagoons (African people) Folk literature, African
AffiliationÉcole pratique des hautes études (France). Section des sciences économiques et sociales
Musée de l'homme (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle)
Mission Dakar-Djibouti (1931-1933)
Profession or occupationAnthropologists Anthropology teachers
Found inLingat, R. Conférences, 1936 ... 1937.
Journal des anthropologues, 72-73, 1998, Denise Paulme (1909-1998), viewed online August 11, 2018: pages 187-188 (died 14 February; educated in law, took courses with Marcel Mauss at Institut d'ethnologie; did fieldwork in the Dogon region (Mali) in 1935 with linguist Deborah Lifchitz; was part of the Griaule Sahara-Soudan mission [1931-33]; her L'Organisation sociale des Dogon may be considered one of the founding works of French social anthropology; then worked at Département d'Afrique noire, musée de l'Homme; after the war she went twice to the Kissi region in Guinea with her husband, musicologist André Schaeffner; also researched the Baga in Guinea, then the Bété and Lagunaires in Côte d'Ivoire; in 1958 she became director of studies at EPHE-VIe Section (now École des hautes études en sciences sociales); from 1961 devoted part of her teaching to analysis of African oral literature)
Wikipedia, August 11, 2018 (Denise Paulme; born May 4, 1909, Paris; died Paris)
Associated languagefre