Book
Dogon games
Institut d'Ethnologie • Paris • Published In 1938 • Pages: HRAF MS: i, 276 leaves [original: viii, 291 , pl
By: Griaule, Marcel, Marcus, Michael A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work, written by a well-known French ethnologist, presents a detailed study of the toys, dances, games and other amusements of the Dogon children living in the area of the escarpment of Bandiagara in French Sudan. The data for this study were collected by the author in the course of the Dakar-Djibouti and Sahara-Sudan expeditions in the years 1931 and 1935. Griaule notes that in many of the listed games and amusements there are certain religious and magical elements present, basically parodies of adult rituals, which may eventually represent the only survival of those adult Dogon ceremonies now falling into disuse (p. 4).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Games
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Childhood activities
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1988
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1931-1935
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1931-1935
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Bandiagara Circle, Mopti Region, Mali
- NotesAdditional notes
- By M. Griaule
- Translation of: Jeux dogons
- The original French text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Michael A. Marcus
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 40005075
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Dogons (African people)