A conformal map whose Jacobian vanishes at a point is constant?

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Let $f:M \to N$ be a smooth weakly conformal map between connected $d$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds, i.e. $f$ satisfies $df^Tdf =(\det df)^{\frac{2}{d}} \, \text{Id}$.

Assume $d \ge 3$ and that $df=0$ at some point. Is it true that $f$ is constant?

A proof for the Euclidean case, can be found in "Geometric Function Theory and Non-linear Analysis", by Iwaniec and Martin.