TY  - JOUR
AU  - Verboven, Dirk
PY  - 1991
DA  - 1991//
TI  - Space, time and bodiliness in Dogon funerals: a praxiological view
JO  - Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford
SP  - 101
EP  - 117
VL  - Vol. 22
IS  - no. 2
PB  - Oxford University Anthropological Society
CY  - Oxford
KW  - Dogons (African people)
KW  - Dogon
KW  - Theoretical orientation in research and its results
KW  - Burial practices and funerals
KW  - Ethnophysics
AB  - 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.
SN  - 0044-8370
UR  - https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=fa16-035
LA  - English
N1  - Dirk Verboven
ID  - fa16-035
Y1  - 2022-06-26
ER  -