Sur les traces du renard pâle : recherches en pays Dogon, 1931-1983 / une co-production de Centre de l'Audio-visuel à Bruxelles (C.B.A.) et la R.T.B.F./Bruxelles ; en association avec le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.) et la Fondation belge pour les recherches anthropologiques (F.O.B.R.A.) ; scénario et réalisation, Luc de Heusch.

Format:

• Video

Contributor:

• Heusch, Luc de, director.
• Rouch, Jean, narrator.
• Dieterlen, Germaine, interviewee.
• Centre de l'audiovisuel à Bruxelles, producer.
• Radio-Télévision belge de la communauté culturelle française, producer.
• Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France), producer.
• Fondation belge pour les recherches anthropologiques, producer.
• Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, distributor.
• Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

Language:

• English
• French

Subjects (All):

• Griaule, Marcel, 1898-1956.
• Dogon (African people)--Social life and customs.
• Ethnological expeditions--Africa--History--20th century.
• Ethnologists--France.
• Ethnologists.
• Ethnological expeditions.
• History.
• Dogon (African people).
• France.
• Africa.

Genre:

• Documentary films.
• Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (48 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

Title from container: Tracking the pale fox : studies on the Dogon

Place of Publication:

London : Royal Anthropological Institute, distributor, [2010?]

Language Note:

Narration in English ; interviews in French with simultaneous English translation.

System Details:

• DVD/PAL, all region.
• digital
• optical
• video file
• DVD video

Summary:

Tells the history of research on the Dogon since the famous 1931 expedition of Marcel Griaule. The film establishes the original expedition in the context of French anthropology at the time. Jean Rouch, celebrated filmmaker and less known as an anthropologist on the Dogon, narrates part of the story, and interviews Dogon elders and veteran expedition-member, Germaine Dieterlen.

Participant:

Narrator, Jean Rouch.

Credits:

Director of photography, Michel Baudour ; editing, Denise Vindevogel.

Notes:

Originally produced in 1983.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

OCLC:

516163369

Online:

The Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund Home Page