Griaule, Marcel, 1898-1956 (Personal Name)

Salvioni, G. Danze dogon e bambara, c1984: p. 6 (Marcel Griaule)

LC data base, 12/28/84 (hdg.: Griaule, Marcel, 1898-1956)

Wikipedia, French version, Mar. 15, 2014 (Marcel Griaule; b. Ainsy-sur-Armençon (Yvonne), May 16, 1898; d. Paris, Feb. 23, 1956; French ethnologist famous for his work on the Dogon; studied Amharic, visited Ethiopia 1928-29; organized mission Dakar-Djibouti 1931-1933, inaugurating French ethnographic field work; began his research of the Dogon; taught ethnology at Institut d'ethnologie, Université de Paris; became sub-director of the Musée de l'Homme; chair of the first chair in ethnology at the Sorbonne, 1942; after WWII he studied the people of the Niger bend, Mali; as counselor of the Union française from 1947, he presided over the Commission des affaires culturelles until his death, participated in development in Mali)

Wikipedia, Dogon languages, Mar. 15, 2014 (the best-studied Dogon language is the escarpment language Toro So of Sanga, due to Marcel Griaule's studies there)

One thousand languages, 2008, viewed online Mar. 15, 2014: p. 83 (Dogon ethnic group, speak about 15 languages; one of their languages, the Toro So variety spoken in Sanga, is described in the work of Marcel Griaule)