title: The oral history of Dogon villages and migrations’ to Dogon Plateau
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metadata.value: Kutsenkov, Petr A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-12-03T16:04:13Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-12-03T16:04:13Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-09
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metadata.value: Kutsenkov P. A. The oral history of Dogon villages and migrations’ to Dogon Plateau. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2018, vol. 10, issue 3, pp. 330–339.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/spbu13.2018.304
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15072
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Despite the increased attention to the Dogon by anthropologists and ethnologists, there are
  many “white spots” in the history and ethnography of this people. For example, not so long
  ago it was believed that they speak six languages; then their number grew steadily, and now
  linguists number already thirty Dogon languages, conditionally united in the family of Dogon
  languages of the macro-family of Niger-Congo; it is possible that there are even more of them.
  The history of migrations on the Bandiagara Highlands and the adjoining plains also remains
  poorly understood. All existing hypotheses, one way or another, based on oral traditions (often
  without specifying the informant and/or source). Only to a small extent are they based on
  archaeological data. In addition to the “common Dogon” historical tradition, which states that
  this people came to the Plateau around the turn of the 16th century, there are historical legends
  of individual villages, their neighbourhoods and even families. They can be very different
  from the ‘general’ version. From this point of view, two oral histories of the village of Endé are
  of great interest. Based on the analysis of these legends, it is possible to draw with all possible
  caution a preliminary conclusion that the Dogon country was populated in two stages: the
  first one falling between the 10th and the 13th centuries, and the second between the 15th and
  the 19th centuries. In all examined villages exists the same model of relations between the local
  population and the aliens: the new group usurps political and military power and gives the old
  population its clan name, but itself adopts its language and culture. Such relations designed to
  prevent possible conflicts. The article based on an analysis of the Dogon oral history collected
  during field research between 2015–2018.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 10; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Mali
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Dogon
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: oral history
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: migrations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The oral history of Dogon villages and migrations’ to Dogon Plateau
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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