ISBN:
978-1-7936-5425-0 (cloth)
,
978-1-7936-5426-7 (epub)
Language:
English
Pages:
xxv, 239 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Keywords:
Mali Dogon
;
Tod
;
Bestattung
;
Begräbnissitte
;
Musikethnologie
;
Klagelied
;
Musik und Kultur
;
Kulturanthropologie
Abstract:
In the Dogon funeral proceedings, a major song cycle called baja ni is performed in a session of at least seven hours. The texts of the chants are attributed to a legendary figure called Abir?, who as a blind singer in the nineteenth century roamed the heartland of the Dogon. The baja ni songs have escaped scholarly attention thus far. Singing with the Dogon Prophet by Walter E.A. van Beek, Oumarou S. Ongoiba, and Atim? D. Saye provides their first publication in English as well as an analysis of these songs. These texts deal with the relations between man and woman, man's ambivalent dependency on the otherworld, and with life and death; the whole night performance is one of the high points of the funeral. Additionally, Abir? is a prophet, and during his life has uttered a great number of prophecies on a wide range of topics, from local issues to the relation of the Dogon with the Fulbe herdsmen, and from the arrival of the colonials to ecological transformation. This book examines how these prophecies with these songs offer an inside view of the way the Dogon construct the present in a continuous dialogue with their past and their projected future.
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Singing through the night -- Chapter 2: A Dogon heritage -- Chapter 3: The blind singer -- Chapter 4: The baja ni in Dogon culture -- Chapter 5: The songs -- Chapter 6: Prophecies -- Appendix 1: The singers -- Appendix 2: Villages with information on Abire -- Appendix 3: Wordlist Dogon (Jamsay and Toro so) -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the authors
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 221-225
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