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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Parin, Paul
Morgenthaler, Fritz
Parin-Matthey, Goldy
Schütze, Frieda
Title:
The Whites think too much: psychoanalytic investigations
among the Dogon in West Africa
Published By: Original publisher
Zurich: Atlantis Verlag. 1963. HRAF MS: i, 550 leaves
[original: 527 p., plates] ill., maps
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
By Paul Parin, Fritz Morgenthaler and Goldy
Parin-Matthey
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
Observation in research (123);
Interviewing in research (124);
Tests and schedules administered in the field (125);
Adjustment processes (154);
Personality development (155);
Family relationships (593);
Personality traits (157);
Life history materials (159);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is a psychoanalytical analysis of Dogon
personality made on the basis of conversations with French-speaking informants and the
subsequent interpretations of their responses to the standardized Rorschach “ink blot”
test. Informants were selected from the Sanga village group as representative of the
traditional Dogon culture. All were bi-lingual in French and Dogon. In the initial stage
of the field work one-hour paid conversations were arranged with the informants in which
rapport was established between the author/analyst and his subjects, and general
background life history information obtained. These conversations occupy the major part
of this source, pp. 70-368. This is followed by a more intensive psychoanalysis of
thirteen selected informants, and a briefer analysis on one hundred individuals on the
basis of their responses on the Rorschach cards. The author concludes with a generalized
psychological profile of the Dogon in terms of modern psychoanalytical
theory.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
9
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.
fa16-009
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Component part(s), monograph
Language: Language that the document is written in
English translation from German
Note:
Translation of: Die Weissen denken zuviel;
Psychoanalytische Untersuchungen bei den Dogon in Westafrika|The original German text is
not included|Because of poor quality, many graphics are not included Includes
bibliographical references (p. 545-550) Translated for the HRAF files by Frieda Schütze
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
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
Psychologist-4,5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
John Beierle ; 1987
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1960
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)
