%0 Book Section
%T Harmony versus autonomy: models of agricultural fertility among the Dogon and the Kapsiki
%A Beek, W. E. A. van
%B creative communion : african folk models in fertility and the regeneration of life
%S Uppsala studies in cultural anthropology
%D 1990
%N no. 15
%I Uppsala University
%C Uppsala
%@ 0348-5099
%@ 9155426603
%G English
%F fa16-029
%O Walter E. A. van Beek
%O from SML  ; pages:  ; to analysis 12/98; analysis completed 1/12/99; 23 text pages.
%O Includes bibliographical references (p. 305)
%X In this article van Beek discusses the history of Dogon settlement, subsistence patterns, and related symbolism. According to van Beek, the Dogon settled the Bandiagara escarpment, beginning in the 15th century, as a defense against slave raiders. The sandstone rocks of the cliffs also held water year-round, compared to the arid plateau and plains. The Dogon culitvated the fields below the cliffs. The closest fields were owned by elders and worked by extended familes. Those further out were owned and worked by younger men, who formed large work groups for protection from slave raiding bands. French pacification ended the need for protection and the Dogon moved further out onto the plain, forming new settlements. Van Beek discusses the land ownership patterns and cropping patterns of this later period, which he compares to those of the Kapsiki.
%K Dogons (African people)
%K Dogon
%K Annual cycle
%K Agriculture
%K Diet
%K Land use
%K Settlement patterns
%K Real property
%K Production and supply
%U https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=fa16-029
%P 285-305
%[ 2022-07-01