book chapter
Land of the cliff dwellers
Wind in Africa : a story of modern medicine in Mali • St. Louis • Published In 1975 • Pages: ix-xi, 183-203
By: Imperato, Pascal James.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is one chapter from a book on a U.S. medical mission to Mali between 1967 and 1971. In the chapter included here, the author, the head of the medical mission, discusses the mission’s experience among the Dogon. Much of the information in this source focuses on the problems of the medical mission in contacting the Dogon and arranging for the vaccination of the village populations. The source also includes information on the topography and climate of the Dogon area and some scattered details on Dogon economy, society, and religion. Some of the most interesting material in this source relates to the process of contact and culture change. In this respect, the author provides information on the impact of tourism on the Dogon, the commercialization of the dama, the masked dances that are part of the Dogon death anniversary ceremony, and the reaction of the Dogon to tourists, the team of foreign health experts, and other outsiders.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Practical preparations in conducting fieldwork
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Life history materials
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- Cult of the dead
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Dogon
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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.
- Public Health Government Doctor
- 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
- Gerald Reid ; 1988
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1967-1971
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1893-1972
- 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
- by Pascale James Imperato
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 73024001
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Dogons (African people)