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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Dieterlen, Germaine
Title:
Sacrifice et traitement des victimes chez les Dogon
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
L'Uomo -- Vol. 9, no. 1-2
Published By: Original publisher
L'Uomo -- Vol. 9, no. 1-2
[Roma]: Università di Roma “La Sapienza. 1985. 149-160 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
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
Mythology (773);
Spirits and gods (776);
Prayers and sacrifices (782);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article, Dieterlen describes in detail Dogon
sacrifices and interpretes their symbolism in terms of Dogon myth and cosmology.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
37
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.
fa16-037
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Journal Article
Language: Language that the document is written in
French
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 160)
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
Not specified
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-4,5
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).
1967-1973
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Mali
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Dogons (African people)
