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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 89,585 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Marcel Griaule is the 39th most popular anthropologist (down from 33rd in 2019), the 2,890th most popular biography from France (down from 2,590th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Marcel Griaule ranks 39 out of 69Before him are Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Franco Basaglia, Birutė Galdikas, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Bill Mollison, and Fredrik Barth. After him are John Lloyd Stephens, Lubor Niederle, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Ralph Linton, David Graeber, and Georges Vacher de Lapouge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Marcel Griaule ranks 122Before him are Irene Dunne, Benjamin Fondane, Lucius D. Clay, José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones, Helmut Hasse, and Vladimir Dekanozov. After him are Warren Sturgis McCulloch, Ernst Wollweber, Jacob Tullin Thams, Katharine Burr Blodgett, Armand Hammer, and Luís Carlos Prestes. Among people deceased in 1956, Marcel Griaule ranks 94Before him are Charles Joughin, Meghnad Saha, Heinrich Barkhausen, André Marty, Carl Brockelmann, and Louis Rosier. After him are Max Beerbohm, Mohammed Hussein Heikal, Évariste Lévi-Provençal, Stan Ockers, Israel Zolli, and Elpidio Quirino.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcel Griaule ranks 2,890 out of 6,011Before him are Anselm of Laon (1050), Fulk II, Count of Anjou (920), Sophie Calle (1953), Charles Mangin (1866), Djibril Cissé (1981), and Nicolas Mignard (1606). After him are Eucherius of Lyon (380), Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou (945), Pascal Bruckner (1948), Édouard Detaille (1848), Henri Laurens (1885), and Charles Tournemire (1870).

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In France

Among anthropologists born in France, Marcel Griaule ranks 5Before him are Paul Broca (1824), Marc Augé (1935), Jacques de Morgan (1857), and Pierre Clastres (1934). After him are Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854), Maurice Godelier (1934), Alfred Sauvy (1898), Georges Balandier (1920), Marcellin Boule (1861), and Françoise Héritier (1933).