The Dogon people are found in the high cliffs of Southern Mali. The population is believed to be somewhere near the 800,000 mark. There are roughly 700 Dogon villages spread across the Mali cliffs. The Dogon are known for their mud and straw architecture, sculptures and most notifiable the traditional mask dancing.
Mask dancing is a tradition generally demonstrated during a morning period. The mask the Dogon wear, during the dance rituals, represent aspects of the living world. This tradition is a means of leaving the deceased with memories of the life in which they are departing. The act of mask dancing is considered a social mentifact. Mentifacts are describes as cultural attributes such as beliefs, ideas and values. These mentifacts are …show more content…
The major crops include millet, rice, beans and onions. Further more goats are farmed and used and manual labour. The goats are used as product transport. The reason millet is such a key component is due to cultural ecology and cultural landscape. Cultural ecology is the study of the relationship between human culture and the environment. This holds regards to how humans interact with the one another due to the environment, which surrounds them. Cultural ecology holds a process of human adaptation in regards to the social and physical environments. The adaptation that takes process is both biological and cultural; this molds a population to be its most able in means of survival and reproduction. Due to the Dogon being sectioned off in the cliff they resource is limited. Goats are considered an economic artifact. Artifacts are made or used by humans, which represents a time period and culture of population. Essentially it is a piece of history. Artifacts are generally pieces of technology or treated like technology providing a notice of the time frame it is from. Artifacts are not naturally present they are created by …show more content…
Though each wife is appointed her own house, where she has her roll of cook and nurturer. The husband is head of the family. Polygamy is a social sociofact. Sociafacts are essentially what a cultural does as a unit, how the members of the culture interact with one another and significant positions held by members. Sociofacts are a culture formalized as codes and normative behaviours through establishments and institutions. Polygamy is considered a sociofact because it is a social norm that is shared amongst the entire Dogon
Mask dancing is a tradition generally demonstrated during a morning period. The mask the Dogon wear, during the dance rituals, represent aspects of the living world. This tradition is a means of leaving the deceased with memories of the life in which they are departing. The act of mask dancing is considered a social mentifact. Mentifacts are describes as cultural attributes such as beliefs, ideas and values. These mentifacts are …show more content…
The major crops include millet, rice, beans and onions. Further more goats are farmed and used and manual labour. The goats are used as product transport. The reason millet is such a key component is due to cultural ecology and cultural landscape. Cultural ecology is the study of the relationship between human culture and the environment. This holds regards to how humans interact with the one another due to the environment, which surrounds them. Cultural ecology holds a process of human adaptation in regards to the social and physical environments. The adaptation that takes process is both biological and cultural; this molds a population to be its most able in means of survival and reproduction. Due to the Dogon being sectioned off in the cliff they resource is limited. Goats are considered an economic artifact. Artifacts are made or used by humans, which represents a time period and culture of population. Essentially it is a piece of history. Artifacts are generally pieces of technology or treated like technology providing a notice of the time frame it is from. Artifacts are not naturally present they are created by …show more content…
Though each wife is appointed her own house, where she has her roll of cook and nurturer. The husband is head of the family. Polygamy is a social sociofact. Sociafacts are essentially what a cultural does as a unit, how the members of the culture interact with one another and significant positions held by members. Sociofacts are a culture formalized as codes and normative behaviours through establishments and institutions. Polygamy is considered a sociofact because it is a social norm that is shared amongst the entire Dogon