Book
Words and the Dogon world
Institute for the Study of Human Issues • Philadelphia • Published In 1986 • Pages:
By: Calame-Griaule, Geneviève, LaPin, Deirdre.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a lengthy, detailed, and complex study of Dogon ethno-linguistics. It is a phenomenological study of Dogon ideas about speech and other forms of communication. The study contains chapters on speech and the person, speech in the human body, the body and the fertilizing power of the word, the symbolic relations between words and techniques, the word of the dead, the mythical revelation of speech, the classification of speech, the modes of speech and their symbolic representations, monitoring speech, speech and relations between the sexes, speech in social life, speech in religion, the spoken arts, and the relations between speech and musical expression. Because of the complex nature of the subject matter, researchers are urged to read the book in its complete form in addition to using it in the HRAF format.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Speech
- Phonology
- Sociolinguistics
- Conversation
- Music
- Literary texts
- Informal in-group justice
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mythology
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Purification and atonement
- Numerology
- Ethnobotany
- Ethnozoology
- Ethnoanatomy
- Ethnophysiology
- Ethnopsychology
- 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
- Marlene Martin ; 1986-1987
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1946-1960
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1946-1960
- 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
- Geneviève Calame-Griaule ; translated from the French by Deirdre LaPin
- Translation of: Ethnologie et langage
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 695-704)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94025160
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Dogons (African people)