book chapter

Social organization of the Dogon (French Sudan)

éditions Domat-Montchrestien, F. Loviton et CieParis • Published In 1940 • Pages:

By: Paulme, Denise, Schütze, Freida.

Abstract
This study is a doctoral thesis for the Law Faculty of the University of Paris in 1940. The author lived among the Dogon from February to October of 1935 while she was a member of Sahara-Sudan Expedition (the Third Griaule Expedition). She studied the social and economic organization of the Dogon while her colleague Deborah Lifchitz studied Dogon language and literature. The volume is divided into two parts. The first part pays primary attention to the social structure and the integration of its parts (kin groupings, community aspects of social organization, economic life, regional chiefs, social groupings, external relations warfare, alliances), and the market. The second part examines more closely domestic life and life cycle (household, marriage, married life, birth, infancy, childhood, old age and death, social and individual rules).
Subjects
Art
Marriage
Family
Death
Reproduction
culture
Dogon
HRAF PubDate
2000
Region
Africa
Sub Region
Western Africa
Document Type
book chapter
Evaluation
Creator Type
Ethnologist
Document Rating
5: Excellent Primary Data
Analyst
Cheng-ruey Ma ; Dubravka Schmalzbauer ; 1970-1972
Field Date
1935
Coverage Date
1935
Coverage Place
Mopti Region, Mali
Notes
Denise Paulme
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Paris, 1940
Translation of: Organisation sociale des Dogon (Soudan français)
The original French text is not included
Includes bibliographical references ( p. 538-554)
Translated for the HRAF files by Frieda Schütze
Only pp. 1-588 and 597-603 have been translated
LCCN
45051970
LCSH
Dogons (African people)