book chapter
Social organization of the Dogon (French Sudan)
éditions Domat-Montchrestien, F. Loviton et Cie • Paris • Published In 1940 • Pages:
By: Paulme, Denise, Schütze, Freida.
Abstract
This study is a doctoral thesis for the Law Faculty of the University of Paris in 1940. The author lived among the Dogon from February to October of 1935 while she was a member of Sahara-Sudan Expedition (the Third Griaule Expedition). She studied the social and economic organization of the Dogon while her colleague Deborah Lifchitz studied Dogon language and literature. The volume is divided into two parts. The first part pays primary attention to the social structure and the integration of its parts (kin groupings, community aspects of social organization, economic life, regional chiefs, social groupings, external relations warfare, alliances), and the market. The second part examines more closely domestic life and life cycle (household, marriage, married life, birth, infancy, childhood, old age and death, social and individual rules).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Western Africa
- Document Type
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Cheng-ruey Ma ; Dubravka Schmalzbauer ; 1970-1972
- Field Date
- 1935
- Coverage Date
- 1935
- Coverage Place
- Mopti Region, Mali
- Notes
- Denise Paulme
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Paris, 1940
- Translation of: Organisation sociale des Dogon (Soudan français)
- The original French text is not included
- Includes bibliographical references ( p. 538-554)
- Translated for the HRAF files by Frieda Schütze
- Only pp. 1-588 and 597-603 have been translated
- LCCN
- 45051970
- LCSH
- Dogons (African people)