book chapter
The Whites think too much: psychoanalytic investigations among the Dogon in West Africa
Atlantis Verlag • Zurich • Published In 1963 • Pages:
By: Parin, Paul, Morgenthaler, Fritz, Parin-Matthey, Goldy, Schütze, Frieda.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is a psychoanalytical analysis of Dogon personality made on the basis of conversations with French-speaking informants and the subsequent interpretations of their responses to the standardized Rorschach “ink blot” test. Informants were selected from the Sanga village group as representative of the traditional Dogon culture. All were bi-lingual in French and Dogon. In the initial stage of the field work one-hour paid conversations were arranged with the informants in which rapport was established between the author/analyst and his subjects, and general background life history information obtained. These conversations occupy the major part of this source, pp. 70-368. This is followed by a more intensive psychoanalysis of thirteen selected informants, and a briefer analysis on one hundred individuals on the basis of their responses on the Rorschach cards. The author concludes with a generalized psychological profile of the Dogon in terms of modern psychoanalytical theory.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Observation in research
- Interviewing in research
- Tests and schedules administered in the field
- Adjustment processes
- Personality development
- Family relationships
- Personality traits
- Life history materials
- 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.
- Psychologist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1987
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1960
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1960
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sanga, Bandiagara Circle, Mopti Region, Mali
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Paul Parin, Fritz Morgenthaler and Goldy Parin-Matthey
- Translation of: Die Weissen denken zuviel; Psychoanalytische Untersuchungen bei den Dogon in Westafrika
- The original German text is not included
- Because of poor quality, many graphics are not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Frieda Schütze
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 545-550)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 63048924
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Dogons (African people)