Book
Conversation with Ogotemmêli
Published for the International African Institute by the Oxford University Press • [london] • Published In 1965 • Pages:
By: Griaule, Marcel.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This relatively short book, a translation of “Dieu d'eau: entretiens avec Ogotemmêli” by Ralph Butler and revised by Audrey I. Richards and Beatrice Hooke, is a result of Griaule's interviews with one of the Dogon better-informed elders in October and November 1946. In order to reach a general audience and to make the character and significance of Dogon religious life more widely known, this record of the author's original observations is presented in an informal style in the form of conversation. A great deal of mythology is presented together with Griaule's reflections on the meaning of what he had been told.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cosmology
- Mythology
- 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
- 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 ; 1970-1971
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1931-1947
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1946
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lower and Upper Ogal, Bandiagara Circle, Mopti Region, Mali
- NotesAdditional notes
- Marcel Griaule
- Translation of: Dieu d'eau: entretiens avec Ogotemmêli
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-226) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 65003614
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Dogons (African people)