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Dogon (dōgän`), African people who live on the bend of the Niger River in the Republic of Mali in West Africa. A patrilineal, sedentary agricultural people, they number over 360,000. They depend mainly on grain crops for their food. Believed to be the original inhabitants of the Niger valley, they lived for thousands of years in completely isolated villages cut out of the cliffs of the Hombori Mts. Many still live in these inaccessible rock caves. The Dogon are known for their art work, which is highly prized.
BibliographySee M. Griaule, Conversations with Ogotemmêli (1965); K. Ezra, Art of the Dogon (1988). DogonPeople of the central plateau region of Mali, around Bandiagara. Their language is of uncertain affinity within the Niger-Congo languages. Numbering about 450,000, the Dogon are mainly an agricultural people. Their distinctive villages are composed of elaborate mud buildings, often built on cliff faces. In addition to their characteristic architecture, the Dogon are known for their fine wood sculptures and masks, metalwork, and leatherwork. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The piece serves as a reminder of the centrality of Dogon culture to French understandings of African mythologies and of the weight of Marcel Griaule and Michel Leiris's work in the Dakar Djibouti mission of the early 1930s. 2), as in Dogon (Munroe, et al 1996:78; Fought et al 2004:35-36), CV studies link this difference to the two group's "external environments"--that the Blackfoot live in a "cold" climate whereas the Dogon live in a "warm/hot" climate" (Munroe et al. In the Dogon religion of Mall, the life spirit, or nyama, lives on after death, but it must be properly cared for so that it does not become destructive. |
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