Calame-Griaule, Geneviève. Words and the Dogon world

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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records Calame-Griaule, Geneviève

Title: Words and the Dogon world

Published By: Original publisher Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues. 1986. xix, 704 p. ill.

By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication Geneviève Calame-Griaule ; translated from the French by Deirdre LaPin

HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.: Human Relations Area Files, 2000. Computer File

Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis. Dogon (FA16)

Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF Speech (191); Phonology (194); Sociolinguistics (195); Conversation (521); Music (533); Literary texts (539); Informal in-group justice (627); Burial practices and funerals (764); Mythology (773); Prayers and sacrifices (782); Purification and atonement (783); Numerology (801); Ethnobotany (824); Ethnozoology (825); Ethnoanatomy (826); Ethnophysiology (827); Ethnopsychology (828);

Abstract: Brief 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.

Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents 10

Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits. fa16-010

Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs. Monograph

Language: Language that the document is written in English

Note: Translation of: Ethnologie et langage Includes bibliographical references (p. 695-704)

Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document 1946-1960

Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is 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 Ethnologist-5

Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection. Marlene Martin ; 1986-1987

Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date). 1946-1960

Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site) Mopti Region, Mali

LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings Dogons (African people)