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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Griaule, Marcel, 1898-1956
Dieterlen, Germaine
Title:
The Dogon
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
African worlds : studies in the cosmological ideas and
social values of African people, edited by C. Daryll Ford
Published By: Original publisher
African worlds : studies in the cosmological ideas and
social values of African people, edited by C. Daryll Ford
London ; New York: Oxford University Press. 1954. 83-110
p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen
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
Dwellings (342);
Settlement patterns (361);
Cosmology (772);
Mythology (773);
Philosophy (812);
Ideas about nature and people (820);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this short article, the authors present a brief and
clear-cut account of the relationship between the Dogon cosmogony and their social
organization in terms of a discussion of certain institutions and concepts -- the myths,
the man, the tribe, kinship, the territorial organization, the homestead, the Hogon (the
clothing, the homestead, the economic functions of the Hogon), totemism, technology
(iron-work and weaving) and international alliances. Apparently all the data discussed in
this paper are based on their fieldwork.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
4
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.
fa16-004
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Essay
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
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
Ethnologists-5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Cheng-ruey Ma ; 1970
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
not specified
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)
