Marcel Griaule

Members of the Mission Dakar-Djibouti in the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro, Paris, 1931. Left to right: André Schaeffner, Jean Mouchet, Georges Henri Rivière, Michel Leiris, le baron Outomsky, Marcel Griaule, Éric Lutten, Jean Moufle, Gaston-Louis Roux, Marcel Larget
Dogon sculpture (Louvre)
An art dealer in Sangha, Mali professes to be the grandson of Ogotemmeli, known from Griaules publications, 1990

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,[1] and for pioneering ethnographic field studies in France. He worked together with Germaine Dieterlen and Jean Rouch on African subjects. His publications number over 170 books and articles for scholarly journals.

  1. ^ "Démasquer la société dogon. Sahara-Soudan (janvier-avril 1935)", Éric JOLLY, Les Carnets de Bérose n° 4, Lahic / DPRPS-Direction des patrimoines, 2014