TY  - CHAP
AU  - Beek, W. E. A. van
A3  - Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis
PY  - 1990
DA  - 1990//
TI  - Harmony versus autonomy: models of agricultural fertility among the Dogon and the Kapsiki
BT  - The creative communion : african folk models in fertility and the regeneration of life
T3  - Uppsala studies in cultural anthropology
SP  - 285
EP  - 305
IS  - no. 15
PB  - Uppsala University
CY  - Uppsala
KW  - Dogons (African people)
KW  - Dogon
KW  - Annual cycle
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Diet
KW  - Land use
KW  - Settlement patterns
KW  - Real property
KW  - Production and supply
AB  - 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.
SN  - 0348-5099
SN  - 9155426603
UR  - https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=fa16-029
LA  - English
N1  - Walter E. A. van Beek
ID  - fa16-029
Y1  - 2022-07-01
ER  -