%0 Book
%T pale fox
%A Griaule, Marcel
%A Dieterlen, Germaine
%D 1986
%I Continuum Foundation
%C China Valley, Ariz.
%@ 0939118025
%G English
%F fa16-025
%O Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen ; translated from the French by Stephen C. Infantino
%O from CCL 11/5/98; copied 12/11/98; pages: 572; to analysis 12/98; analysis completed 1/99; 572 text pages.
%O Translation of: Le renard pâle
%O Originally published in French by l'Institut d'Ethnologie, Paris, 1965
%O Includes bibliographical references (p. 548-522)
%O Many graphics are not included
%X 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 impressive work. The myth tightly weaves together  Dogon ideas about language, anatomy, astronomy, botany, the landscape, and genealogy. Could the creation myth be a mnemonic device for storing and transmitting Dogon knowledge? The myth represents the accumulated knowledge of Dogon elders, underlying their authority, and serving as a blueprint for Dogon social life. It is also an epistemolgy, in which ideas are thought to emerge through a hierarchy of symbols: from traces (BUMMO) to signs (YALA) to figures (TONU).
%K Dogons (African people)
%K Dogon
%K Visual arts
%K Cosmology
%K Mythology
%K Spirits and gods
%K Ideas about nature and people
%9 bibliographic
%U https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=fa16-025
%[ 2022-06-25