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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Beek, W. E. A. van
Title:
Becoming human in Dogon, Mali
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Coming into existence : birth and metaphors of birth,
edited with an introduction by Göran Aijmer
Published By: Original publisher
Coming into existence : birth and metaphors of birth,
edited with an introduction by Göran Aijmer
Goteborg, Sweden: Institute for Advanced Studies in Social
Anthropology. 1992. 47-70, 154-159 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Walter E. A. van Beek
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
Age stratification (561);
Gender status (562);
Mythology (773);
Organized ceremonial (796);
Ideas about nature and people (820);
Reproduction (840);
Puberty and initiation (881);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article van Beek discusses women's fertility and
Dogon ideas and practices surrounding menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and naming. He
then discusses the SIGUI ceremony which happens once every sixty years. The sigui ceremony
is a ritual of renewel and initiation in which only men participate. Men are reborn from
the bush with a new personhood (INé) and minds (HAKILé), and with enhanced powers and
fertility. According to van Beek, the sigui ceremony inverts the rituals associated with
pregnancy and childbirth and endow men and the patrilineage with creative powers. The
ceremony stresses ‘the fleeting male creation by man of himself against the continuing
chain of life generated by the women' (p. 70).
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
28
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.
fa16-028
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 (p. 154-159)
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1978-1989
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
Ethnographer-5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Ian Skoggard ;1999
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1978-1989
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Bandiagara escarpment, Mali
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Dogons (African people)
