The Dogon People Case Files

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The Dogon People
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The Dogon are an ethnic group of approximately 400,000 to 800,000 people inhabiting the Bandiagara Escarpment in what is now the Mopti Region of central Mali, West Africa. They are one of the most studied indigenous cultures on the African continent, the subject of decades of ethnographic research that produced one of the most debated mysteries in 20th-century anthropology: the question of how a pre-industrial people of West Africa possessed detailed cosmological knowledge of the Sirius star system that Western astronomy had only recently confirmed.

Dogon People -- Additional Astronomical Knowledge: Saturn Jupiter and the Milky Way:


Dogon People -- Ancient Egyptian Connections: Sirius Isis and Sothis:


Dogon People -- Ancient Greek Knowledge of Sirius:


Dogon People -- Competing Explanations: A Comparative Assessment:


Dogon People -- Complete Timeline:


Dogon People -- Dogon Mask Traditions: The Awa Society in Depth:


Dogon People -- Emme Ya Tolo: The Third Star and Sirius C:


Dogon People -- Expansion: Additional Articles Index:


Dogon People -- Fonio: The Sacred Seed and Its Cosmological Significance:


Dogon People -- History Culture and the Bandiagara Escarpment:


Dogon People -- Key Persons Directory:


Dogon People -- Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen: The Anthropologists:


Dogon People -- Mesopotamian Parallels: Oannes and the Amphibian Teachers:


Dogon People -- Missionaries and Colonial Contact as Contamination Vectors:


Dogon People -- Modern Dogon Life: Cultural Change and Survival:


Dogon People -- Ogo and the Pale Fox: Disorder in the Cosmos:


Dogon People -- Po Tolo: The Dogon Knowledge of Sirius B:


Dogon People -- Precession of the Equinoxes and the Sirius Cycle:


Dogon People -- Robert Temple Revisited: The 1998 Expanded Edition and the CIA Claim:


Dogon People -- Robert Temple and The Sirius Mystery 1976:


Dogon People -- Sirius in World Mythology: Beyond Egypt and Mesopotamia:


Dogon People -- Sources Bibliography and Further Reading:


Dogon People -- The Afrocentric Interpretation: Melanin Theory and Black Egyptians:


Dogon People -- The Bandiagara Escarpment: Archaeology and Prehistory:


Dogon People -- The Contamination Hypothesis: Griaule as the Source:


Dogon People -- The Dogon Cosmological System: Amma Nommo and Creation:


Dogon People -- The Dogon Language Family:


Dogon People -- The Dogon Legacy: Oral Tradition Art and Cosmological Continuity:


Dogon People -- The Extraterrestrial Contact Hypothesis:


Dogon People -- The Griaule Methodology Debate: Fieldwork Ethics and Epistemology:


Dogon People -- The Invisible College Hypothesis:


Dogon People -- The Lebe Serpent Cult and Agricultural Cosmology:


Dogon People -- The Nommo: Amphibious Visitors from Sirius:


Dogon People -- The Sigi So Language: Speech of the Sigui:


Dogon People -- The Sigui Ceremony: Ritual Enactment of the Cosmic Cycle:


Dogon People -- The Sirius Star System: Astronomical Facts:


Dogon People -- The Tellem People: The Cliff Dwellers Before the Dogon:


Dogon People -- Walter van Beek and the 1991 Restudy:


Dogon People -- White Dwarf Stars: The Physics of Po Tolo:


Dogon People and Sirius -- Master Overview: