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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Dieterlen, Germaine
Schütze, Frieda
Title:
Classification of plants among the Dogon
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Journal de la Société des Africanists -- Vol.
22
Published By: Original publisher
Journal de la Société des Africanists -- Vol.
22
Paris: Société des Africanists. 1952. HRAF MS: i, 72 p.
[original: 115-158 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
Ethnobotany (824);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article presents detailed information on the Dogon
people's plant classification system (about 300 kinds) which the author collected in the
field at Sanga (Bandiagara) in 1950 and 1952. Like all the categories of beings and the
things of the universe recognized by the Dogon, the plants are classified into 24
families -- 22 primary and two complementary ones. The plant categories in the universe
play an important role and have significant uses in native alimentation and
pharmacopoeia. The coherent system of cosmo-biological correspondences reveals the
synthesis of the knowledge of the Dogon.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
6
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.
fa16-006
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
English translation from French
Note:
Translation of: Classification des végétaux chez les
Dogon|The original French text is not included Includes bibliographical references (p.
70-72) Translated for the HRAF files by Frieda Schütze
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1937-1952 (esp. 1950-1952)
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.
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).
1950-1952
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Sanga, Bandiagara Circle, Mopti Region,
Mali
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Dogons (African people)
