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Sacrifice et traitement des victimes chez les Dogonarticle 1985 • Dieterlen, Germaine
Dogon • Africa > Western Africa
In this article, Dieterlen describes in detail Dogon sacrifices and interpretes their symbolism in terms of Dogon myth and cosmology....An essay on the religion of the Bambarabook chapter 1951 • Dieterlen, Germaine & Wolf, Katia
Bambara • Africa > Western Africa
This is a general work by a well-known French ethnographer dealing with Bambara religion and its relations with other aspects of the culture. The main sections of the book are concerned with mythology, the gods, the individual and his religion, sacri...Classification of plants among the Dogonarticle 1952 • Dieterlen, Germaine & Schütze, Frieda
Dogon • Africa > Western Africa
This article presents detailed information on the Dogon people's plant classification system (about 300 kinds) which the author collected in the field at Sanga (Bandiagara) in 1950 and 1952. Like all the categories of beings and the things of the uni...The souls of the DogonsBook 1942 • Dieterlen, Germaine & Granka, Sherri L.
Dogon • Africa > Western Africa
The present work is part of a series of studies utilizing the various ethnographic documents collected in the French Sudan during the Griaule missions of 1931-1939, and concentrating on the Dogon of the Cliffs of Bandiagara. During the course of thes...Dogon alimentationarticle 1960 • Dieterlen, Germaine et al.
Dogon • Africa > Western Africa
This study of the Dogon's alimentation is primarily based on the author's intensive field investigation in the region of Sanga and in terms of the market of this region. The authors present good information on the alimentary and culinary material as ...The Dogonessay 1954 • Griaule, Marcel & Dieterlen, Germaine
Dogon • Africa > Western Africa
In this short article, the authors present a brief and clear-cut account of the relationship between the Dogon cosmogony and their social organization in terms of a discussion of certain institutions and concepts -- the myths, the man, the tribe, kin...The pale foxBook 1986 • Griaule, Marcel & Dieterlen, Germaine
Dogon • Africa > Western Africa
This is the English translation of the classic French ethnography on the Dogon creation myth, ‘Le renard pâle,’ published in 1965. Although Griaule's ethnographic methods have come under attack (see van Beek, document no. 31), this is nevertheless an...