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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Art
- Marriage
- Family
- Death
- Reproduction
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Dogon
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Cheng-ruey Ma ; Dubravka Schmalzbauer ; 1970-1972
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1935
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1935
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mopti Region, Mali
- NotesAdditional 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
- Translated for the HRAF files by Frieda Schütze
- Only pp. 1-588 and 597-603 have been translated
- Includes bibliographical references ( p. 538-554)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 45051970
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Dogons (African people)