ANTHROPOLOGIST

Marcel Griaule

1898 - 1956

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Marcel Griaule (16 May 1898 – 23 February 1956) was a French author and anthropologist known for his studies of the Dogon people of West Africa, and for pioneering ethnographic field studies in France. He worked together with Germaine Dieterlen and Jean Rouch on African subjects. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcel Griaule has received more than 97,554 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Marcel Griaule is the 36th most popular anthropologist (up from 38th in 2019), the 2,845th most popular biography from France (up from 2,881st in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Marcel Griaule ranks 36 out of 93. Before him are Pierre Clastres, Wilhelm Schmidt, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Richard Leakey, Franco Basaglia, and Henry Fairfield Osborn. After him are Jean Malaurie, David Graeber, Paolo Mantegazza, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Aleš Hrdlička, and Louis Dumont.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Marcel Griaule ranks 114. Before him are Katharine Burr Blodgett, Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria, Paul Robeson, Messali Hadj, Eric Hoffer, and Ernst Wollweber. After him are Tian Han, Helmut Hasse, Albert Lutuli, Étienne Decroux, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, and Irene Dunne. Among people deceased in 1956, Marcel Griaule ranks 95. Before him are André Marty, Clifford Brown, Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia, Walter Gieseking, Victor Young, and Carl Brockelmann. After him are Mohammed Hussein Heikal, Samad Vurgun, Harold Bride, Vladimir Obruchev, Louis Rosier, and Israel Zolli.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcel Griaule ranks 2,845 out of 6,770. Before him are Patrick Demarchelier (1943), Claude Autant-Lara (1901), Favorinus (85), Édouard Detaille (1848), Princess Anne of Orléans (1906), and Paschasius Radbertus (792). After him are Georges Descrières (1930), Bernard Chiarelli (1934), Alberic of Cîteaux (1001), Renaud de Vichiers (1198), Charles Angrand (1854), and Jean Vincent (1930).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In France

Among anthropologists born in France, Marcel Griaule ranks 5. Before him are Paul Broca (1824), Marc Augé (1935), Jacques de Morgan (1857), and Pierre Clastres (1934). After him are Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854), Alfred Sauvy (1898), Maurice Godelier (1934), Georges Balandier (1920), Philippe Descola (1949), Yves Coppens (1934), and Marcellin Boule (1861).

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