Dogon

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…

The columns that divided culture and religion From the Caryatids of the porch of the Erechtheion in Athens, Greece to the Togu na House post built by the Dogon in Mali, nearly 2500 years have passed between the two styles of sculptures. The Caryatid statues of Athens, Greece, built between ca. 421-405 BCE, have vast detail in the image of the female, unlike the Dogon Togu na House Post which shows an abstract view of a woman’s body. Although they have similarities in choice of design and…

significant part of the African history to follow this particular celestial cycles. The Dama is a ritual dance for the Dogon Tribe of Mali, situated in West Africa. This essay will examine and analyse the movement and non-movement components within the dance. It will also analyse how this ritual dance preserves the Dogon Tribe’s culture and history. The Dama ritual dance holds a vital importance in the Dogon history as it represents the barrier between life and death. This dance is performed to…

The Senufo Face Mask and Western Guinea Coast Masquerade Figure both have Raffia as one of their materials. Raffia is a palm tree native to Africa with a short trunk and very long leaves. Another meaning is the fiber from the leaves of the raffia tree that can be used to make mats, baskets, hats and other things. On the back of the Senufo Bird figure, there is a tail, one bird on each wang facing each other, two figures that seem to have two arms and two legs, or four legs, and a wavy line on…

and her evidence can be found in Meredith F. Small’s article, A Women’s Curse. Strassmann was investigating how different cultures treat menstruation; to do this effectively, she traveled to West Africa and stayed with the Dogon tribe for two years to complete her study. In this location, she found a “natural-fertility population, which did not use contraception and high birthrates” (Small, p. 133). As Strassmann began to analyze the Dogon people, she noticed that the women who were menstruating…

The relationship between humanity and gods in African religions starts with the main belief that humanity is the center of their cosmos. Myths portray this belief from the very start with focusing more on today than the after life. Myths teach this concept with the idea that humans were created from clay that came directly from "beneath Erath or out of a rock or tree." This makes one focus on what they are doing for society as a whole, not just focusing on themselves. African religions also…

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abstractions like the death and the life simultaneously ? Initiating with the African Masks, ´´ they are used in religious and social events to represent the spirits of ancestors or to control the good and evil forces in the community ´´ (ArtyFactory, The function of an African mask, 2016). We can find the perfect example of the Dogon entity situated in Western Africa, Mali (Van Beek et al. 2011). They represent both the maximum of death, life, the invisible and visible in a “masquerade dances…

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Why is every UFO video blurry? And it seems nobody ever gets a clear shot. What did they really see at Roswell? Explain how certain tribes in Africa like the primitive Dogon people have precise knowledge about the stars. Explain Ezekiel in the bible say things like "And I looked, and behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire unfolding itself, and brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire. Explain these…