TY  - BOOK
AU  - Calame-Griaule, Geneviève
PY  - 1986
DA  - 1986//
TI  - Words and the Dogon world
PB  - Institute for the Study of Human Issues
CY  - Philadelphia
KW  - Dogons (African people)
KW  - Dogon
KW  - Speech
KW  - Phonology
KW  - Sociolinguistics
KW  - Conversation
KW  - Music
KW  - Literary texts
KW  - Informal in-group justice
KW  - Burial practices and funerals
KW  - Mythology
KW  - Prayers and sacrifices
KW  - Purification and atonement
KW  - Numerology
KW  - Ethnobotany
KW  - Ethnozoology
KW  - Ethnoanatomy
KW  - Ethnophysiology
KW  - Ethnopsychology
AB  - This is a lengthy, detailed, and complex study of Dogon ethno-linguistics. It is a phenomenological study of Dogon ideas about speech and other forms of communication. The study contains chapters on speech and the person, speech in the human body, the body and the fertilizing power of the word, the symbolic relations between words and techniques, the word of the dead, the mythical revelation of speech, the classification of speech, the modes of speech and their symbolic representations, monitoring speech, speech and relations between the sexes, speech in social life, speech in religion, the spoken arts, and the relations between speech and musical expression. Because of the complex nature of the subject matter, researchers are urged to read the book in its complete form in addition to using it in the HRAF format.
SN  - 0915980959
UR  - https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=fa16-010
LA  - English
N1  - Geneviève Calame-Griaule ; translated from the French by Deirdre LaPin
ID  - fa16-010
Y1  - 2022-07-05
ER  -