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Singing with the Dogon Prophet (Hardcover)
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Singing with the Dogon Prophet (Hardcover)
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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 Abire, 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, Abire 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.
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