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Michel Leiris was a French writer and ethnographer who served on the 1931-33 Dakar-Djibouti mission and published L'Afrique fantome in 1934.
Germaine Tillion was a French ethnologist of Algeria and World War II Resistance member who survived Ravensbruck and was later buried in the Pantheon.
Denise Paulme was a French Africanist anthropologist whose 1940 monograph on Dogon social organization became a key work in West African ethnography.
Marcel Griaule was a French anthropologist known for Dogon studies in Mali and for Dieu d'eau, his 1948 account of conversations with Ogotemmeli.
Matilda Coxe Stevenson was an American anthropologist and the first woman hired by the Bureau of American Ethnology, known for Zuni studies.
Alice Cunningham Fletcher was an American ethnologist who studied Omaha music and helped administer Native land allotments under the 1887 Dawes Act.
