Draft:Geneviève Calame-Griaule

Geneviève Calame-Griaule
Born	Geneviève Lucienne Griaule (1924-11-19)19 November 1924 Paris, France
Died	23 August 2013(2013-08-23) (aged 88) Fontainebleau, France
Employer	CNRS
Father	Marcel Griaule

Geneviève Calame-Griaule (19 November 1924 – 23 August 2013) was a French linguist and anthropologist, famous for her work on the Dogon people.

She was born on 19 November 1924 in Paris. She is the daughter of Marcel Griaule, an ethnologist, who encouraged her from childhood to follow in his footsteps. After studying at the School of Oriental Languages, she accompanied her father to visit the Dogons in French Sudan (now Mali) in 1946. Upon her return, she passed the grammar aggregation and joined the CNRS in 1951, where she was part of the ERA 246 research group Langage et culture en Afrique de l’Ouest 'Language and culture in West Africa' ​​directed by Pierre-Francis Lacroix. She became director of this group after Lacroix's death, then research director at the CNRS. In 1965, she wrote the book "Ethnology and language: speech among the Dogons" which made her particularly famous. In the 1970s, she traveled to visit the Tuareg and Isawaghen of Niger. In 1976, she founded the journal Cahiers de littérature orale with a group of researchers. She is one of the founders of French ethnolinguistics. She died on 23 August 2013 in Fontainebleau.

Her husband was the violinist Blaise Calame.

Ethnologie et langage : la parole chez les Dogons

In her book Ethnologie et langage : la parole chez les Dogons 'Ethnology and language: speech among the Dogons', which made her famous, she explains that in West Africa, the people have been fascinating observers with their architecture, their rites, their cultures, among other things. But this is not because their language is different that they are incomprehensible. In fact a particular society has a universal meaning, it also transmits to us that "Mankind is nothing" and that "everything speaks". In the presentation of her work, she states that "L'homme cherche son reflet dans tous les miroirs d'un univers à son image, dont chaque brin d'herbe, chaque moucheron, est porteur d'une 'parole'" 'Man seeks his reflection in all the mirrors of a universe in his image, of which each blade of grass, each midge, is the bearer of a "word".'

Publications

• —— (2009) [1965]. Ethnologie et langage: la parole chez les Dogon (in French) (3rd, revised and corrected ed.). Limoges: Lambert-Lucas. ISBN 9782359350029. OCLC 560007544.
• —— (2006). Contes dogon du Mali (in French). Karthala. ISBN 9782845868007. OCLC 75252374.
• —— (2002). Contes tendres, contes cruels du Sahel nigérien (in French). Paris: Gallimard. ISBN 2-07-076397-8. OCLC 49529715.
• Bernus, Suzy; Calame-Griaule, Geneviève; Bernus, Edmond (1992). Mémoire de sable : écrits pour Suzy Bernus (in French). Paris: Société des africanistes. OCLC 66736712.
• —— (1996). "Valeurs symboliques de l'alimentation chez les Dogon". Journal des africanistes (in French). 66 (1–2): 81–104. doi:10.3406/jafr.1996.1096.
• —— (1992). "Manoirs d'argile : notes sur l'habitat à In Gall". Journal des africanistes. 62 (2): 131–152. doi:10.3406/jafr.1992.2358.
• —— (1991). "Ethnologie et sciences du langage". Société d'études linguistiques et anthropologiques de France. 10: 626–671.
• —— (1987). Des Cauris au marché : essais sur des contes africains (in French). Société des Africanistes. OCLC 44020434.
• —— (1977). Langage et cultures africaines: essais d'ethnolinguistique. Maspero. ISBN 9782707108579. OCLC 4001841.
• —— (1975). Permanence et métamorphoses du conte populaire: la mère traîtresse et le tueur de dragons (in French). Publications Orientalistes de France. ISBN 9782716900386. OCLC 3293441.
• Petites Sœurs de Jésus (1974). Calame-Griaule, Geneviève (ed.). Contes touaregs de l'Aïr. Langues et civilisations à tradition orale (in French and taq). Vol. 7. SELAF. OCLC 38608872.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
• —— (1972). "Une affaire de famille : réflexions sur quelques thèmes de "cannibalisme" dans les contes africains". Nouvelle Revue de Psychanalyse. 6: 171–202.
• —— (1970). "Pour une étude ethnolinguistique des littératures orales africaines". Langages. 5 (18): 22–47. doi:10.3406/lgge.1970.2026.
• —— (1970). Le thème de l'arbre dans les contes africains (in French). Vol. 2. SELAF.
• —— (1968). Dictionnaire dogon: dialecte toro, langue et civilisation (in French). Klincksieck. OCLC 4005831.
• —— (1963). "L'art de la parole dans la culture africaine". Présence africaine: 1–19.
• —— (1962). "Le rôle spirituel et social de la femme dans la société soudanaise traditionnelle". Diogène. 37: 81–92.
• —— (1958). "Culture et humanisme chez les Dogon". Recherches et Débats du Centre Catholique des Intellectuels Français. 24: 9–21.
• ——; Calame, Blaise (1957). Introduction à l'étude de la musique africaine. Éditions Richard-Masse.