Identification

Infant Care

Child Care

Occupational Specialization

Age Stratification

Castes

Slavery

Sodalities

Topography and Geology

Water Supply

Settlement Patterns

Lineages

Organization and Analysis of Results

Sorcery

Medical Personnel

Magicians and Diviners

Location

Population

Composition of Population

Arboriculture

Real Property

Inheritance

Bibliographies in Sources

Reviews and Critiques

Theory of Disease

Shamans and Psychotherapists

Social Control

Collecting

Domesticated Animals

Poultry Raising

Agriculture

Tillage

Production and Supply

Spirits and Gods

Congregations

External Migration

Historical Reconstruction

History

Acculturation and Culture Contact

Foreign Exchange

Labor Supply and Employment

External Relations

Glossary

Districts

Linguistic Identification

Special Languages

Climate

Fauna

Flora

General Character of Religion

Theological Systems

Religious Denominations

Military Organization

Instigation of War

Material Not Relevant

Community Heads

Community Councils

Local Officials

Territorial Hierarchy

Priesthood

Rest Days and Holidays

Gender Status

Burial Practices and Funerals

Mourning

Organized Ceremonial

Kinship Terminology

Commercial Facilities

Exchange Transactions

Internal Trade

External Trade

Division of Labor by Gender

Clans

Household

Regulation of Marriage

Arranging a Marriage

Termination of Marriage

Residence

Polygamy

Leather, Textiles, and Fabrics

Processing of Basic Materials

Smiths and Their Crafts

Life and Death

Cosmology

Animism

Eschatology

CULTURE SUMMARY: DOGON

ETHNONYMS

ORIENTATION

HISTORY AND CULTURAL RELATIONS

SETTLEMENT

ECONOMY

KINSHIP

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

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RELIGIOUS PRACTITIONERS

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MEDICINE

DEATH AND AFTERLIFE

IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION

DEMOGRAPHY

LINGUISTIC AFFILIATION

SUBSISTENCE

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

TRADE

DIVISION OF LABOR

LAND TENURE

KIN GROUPS AND DESCENT

KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY

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DOMESTIC UNIT

INHERITANCE

SOCIALIZATION

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The Dogon live primarily in the districts of Bandiagara and Douentza in the western African country of Mali. Some Dogon reside in Burkina Faso. The Dogon languages are  classified within the Volta-Congo group of the Niger-Congo Language Family. The Dogon settled along the Bandiagara escarpment in the fifteenth or sixteenth century after the breakup of the Mali Empire and for protection against slave raiders. They live in compact, occasionally walled villages built up the sides of the escarpment. The Dogon are primarily agriculturalists, supplemented by gathering.

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