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Sites significant to the religious practice of the Dogon people of Mali, whose cosmology and ritual life have been the subject of considerable outside anthropological interest, not all of it reliable. Sacred sites are grouped by tradition at a fine grain here, so a heading can be narrow without that saying anything about the tradition's own reach.
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Whose Classification This IsThe elaborate cosmology usually attached to these places is Marcel Griaule's synthesis of 1946-48, published as Dieu d'eau. Walter van Beek's restudy from 1979 could not find it among Dogon informants and read it as co-produced in the interview. 2 Overview
What Defines This GroupingShrines, altars and burial caves along the Bandiagara escarpment in Mali, attached to lineage ancestors, to the masked dances of the Awa society at the end of mourning, and to the Sigui held roughly every sixty years. 2 Status
Status TodayLiving. Dogon practice centres on Amma, on the ancestors, on the Awa masking dances and on the Sigui, and it is carried by people in the escarpment villages rather than by the printed cosmology. 2 Learn More
Dogon sacred sites
This small group holds a sacred site of the Dogon people of Mali: whose cliffside villages, shrines and ritual life, bound to a complex cosmology and to their ancestors, have long drawn the attention of scholars.
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Sites grouped for the Dogon tradition.
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