@Article{fa16-035,
  author = 	{Verboven, Dirk},
  title = 	{Space, time and bodiliness in Dogon funerals: a praxiological view},
  journal = 	{Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford},
  year = 	{1991},
  publisher = 	{Oxford University Anthropological Society},
  address = 	{Oxford},
  volume = 	{Vol. 22},
  number = 	{no. 2},
  pages = 	{101--117},
  keywords = 	{Dogons (African people); Dogon; Theoretical orientation in research and its results; Burial practices and funerals; Ethnophysics},
  abstract = 	{In this paper Verboven examines the bodily movements of Dogon funeral rituals and interpretes them in relation to the Dogon social and cosmological order. According to Verboven, cultural meaning is derived from the body. The body is the basis for relational, spatial, or orientational metaphors that connect bodily, social, and cosmological principles. Basic body/space oppositions include in/out, up/down, left/right, front/back, which can be metaphors for social oppositions. Furthermore, bodily movement can be interpreted as dynamic transgressions of the above oppositions: entering/leaving, ascending/descending, turning counterclockwise/clockwise, approaching/withdrawing, respectively. Verboven interpretes the movements in funeral rituals as embodiments of Dogon social order, with its divisions between young/old, men/women, lineage/clan, etc.},
  note = 	{Dirk Verboven},
  note = 	{copied at SML 9/29/98; pages: 20; to analysis 1/99; analysis completed 1/99; 20 text pages.},
  note = 	{Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-117)},
  issn = 	{0044-8370},
  url = 	{https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=fa16-035},
  language = 	{English}
  note =        {Accessed on: 2022-06-26}
}