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Marcel Griaule (1898-1956) was among the first ethnographers trained at the Institute of Ethnology at the Sorbonne and became the inaugural chair of ethnology at the University of Paris–Sorbonne in 1942. He is known for his controversial research on the Dogon people, claiming that Dogon priests possessed advanced astronomical knowledge. Griaule collaborated with Germaine Dieterlen, co-authoring *Le Renard pâle*, and was later criticized for his wartime Vichy sympathies and the empirical basis of his Dogon research.
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