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Article: Jean Rouch: 1917-2004.(in memoriam)(Obituary)
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- African Arts
- Article date:
- June 22, 2004
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I first met Jean Rouch in the summer of 1976 in Niamey, the capital of the Republic of Niger, a place that he considered home, a place where, after the tragic car accident that killed him at the age of 86, he now rests. I had arrived in Niger to begin gathering data for a doctoral research project on the religion of the Songhay people, the very people depicted in Rouch's books and in his celebrated films. When we met several times that summer for coffee, he was always open and informal. In fact, he went out of his way to help someone who had just begun to walk the path of ethnography. I was very pleasantly surprised that such an important scholar would take so much time ...
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