Book
Graine de l'homme, enfant du mil
Societe d'ethnographie ; Service de publication du laboratoire d'ethnologie et sociologie comparative, Universite de Paris X • (6) • Published In 1984 • Pages: 255 , plates
By: Bouju, Jacky.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a six-month study of Dogon social organization and production in the village of Sibi-Sibi, five kilometers from the town of Bandiagara. In the first part Bouju discusses Dogon (Karambé clan) social struture: the clan, lineages, affinal relations, age-grades and village organization. Next he discusses land tenure, cereal production, and redistribution of family produce and income, and shows how they are embedded in and reinforce the kinship and age-class system. In the last section Bouju discusses market gardening, migrant labor, and Islam and the affect they have had on traditional Dogon social structure.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Real property
- Acquisition and relinquishment of property
- Gift giving
- Accumulation of wealth
- Age stratification
- Extended families
- Lineages
- Clans
- 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.
- 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
- Ian Skoggard; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1979-1980
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1880-1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sibi-Sibi, Bandiagara, Mali
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jacky Bouju
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-252)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 84255659
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Dogons (African people)