About the Dogon - the land, the people, the corners of YaSegei

Authors

  • Cláudia Neiva de Matos UFF

Keywords:

Dogon, oral literature, traditional African songs, Marcel Griaule, Ethnography

Abstract

Divided into three sections, this article deals with culture and songs of Dogon, a people from Mali, in West Africa. Starting from a trip on the Dogon Land, a collection of songs chanted by YaSegei, a Dagon woman living in the village of Begnemato, has been recorded, transcribed and translated in conjunction with bilingual native collaborators. The research procedures and the relationship between the researcher and her informers (singer, transcribers, translators) are commented on here. This research is still in progress and should be considered in the light of the polemical evolution of studies about Dogon, set forth by the expeditions and writings of ethnographer Marcel Griaule and his collaborators, the main lines of which are explained here.

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Author Biography

Cláudia Neiva de Matos, UFF

Doutora em Letras, é professora aposentada pela UFF, com estudos concentrados no campo das poéticas da palavra cantada. Publicou, entre outros títulos: A poesia popular na República das Letras: Sílvio Romero folclorista (1994), Antologia da floresta: literatura selecionada e ilustrada por professores indígenas do Acre (org, 1997), Ao encontro da palavra cantada: poesia, música e voz (co-org, 2001), Brazil's Indigenous Textualities (Literary Cultures ofLatin America, 2004); lnterações e parcerias na pesquisa etnográfica (Anais do XXIII SNH, 2005); O lirismo no samba (Música popular na América Latina: pontos de escuta, 2005).

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Published

2005-12-30

How to Cite

Matos, C. N. de. (2005). About the Dogon - the land, the people, the corners of YaSegei. Gragoatá, 10(19). Retrieved from https://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/33260

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 19 (2005): África, new pathways

Section

Literature Articles

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