# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marcel-griaule
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:07:18.316Z

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name: "Marcel Griaule"
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description: "Marcel Griaule 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. His publications number over 170 books and articles for scholarly journals."
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birthDate: "1898-05-16"
deathDate: "1956-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump