Germaine chez elle
Germaine chez elle

Germaine chez elle

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1994•35 min•Documentary
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Germaine Dieterlen
Germaine Dieterlen
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Jean Rouch
Jean Rouch
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Brice Ahounou
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Mahmoud Maïga
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In front of Jean Rouch's camera, Germaine Dieterlen recalls her ethnographic itinerary, at the Musée de l'Homme, in Mali and in the Paris of the 1930s.
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