@Misc{fa16-004, author = {Griaule, Marcel and Dieterlen, Germaine}, title = {Dogon}, year = {1954}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, address = {London}, pages = {83--110}, keywords = {Dogons (African people); Dogon; Dwellings; Settlement patterns; Cosmology; Mythology; Philosophy; Ideas about nature and people}, abstract = {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, kinship, the territorial organization, the homestead, the Hogon (the clothing, the homestead, the economic functions of the Hogon), totemism, technology (iron-work and weaving) and international alliances. Apparently all the data discussed in this paper are based on their fieldwork.}, note = {Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen}, note = {Includes bibliographical references}, url = {https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=fa16-004}, language = {English} note = {Accessed on: 2022-06-30} }