Abstract
THE social and religious institutions of the Dogon, a cliff-dwelling Negro tribe of Mendi origin who occupy the Bandiagara escarpment of the French Sudan, have formed the subject of extensive study by members of the Institute d‘Ethnologie of the University of Paris under the leadership of Prof. M. Griaule. Their eight years of field-work, perhaps the most extensive and sustained yet undertaken in Negro Africa, is now beginning to bear fruit ; "Jeux Dogons" and "Masques Dogons", both by Prof. Griaule, appeared in 1938 ; "Organisation social des Dogons" by Mme. de Paulme-Schaeffner in 1940, and these were followed in 1941 by the two monographs now reviewed, which only recently reached Great Britain.
Les Âmes des Dogons
Par G. Dieterlen. Pp. viii + 268 + 15 plates. 100.70 francs.
Les Devises des Dogons
Par Solange de Ganay. Pp. viii + 194 + 9 plates. 100.70 francs. (Université de Paris: Travaux et mémoires de l‘Institut d‘Ethnologie, Tomes 40 and 41.) (Paris: Institut d‘Ethnologie, 1941.)
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JONES, G. Les Âmes des Dogons Les Devises des Dogons. Nature 161, 622 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161622a0
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