Germaine Dieterlen
- Born
- 15 May 1903 (96 years old)
- Died
- 13 November 1999
- Place of birth
- Paris, France, EU
- Gender
- Female
Germaine Dieterlen was a French anthropologist. She was a student of Marcel Mauss, worked with noted French anthropologists Marcel Griaule (1898-1956) and Jean Rouch, wrote on a large range of ethnographic topics and made pioneering contributions to the study of myths, initiations, techniques (particularly "descriptive ethnography"), graphic systems, objects, classifications, ritual and social structure.
