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It takes a long time to say hello in Dogon. When you meet someone, you must always ask about their health. Then you must ask about the health of his wife or her husband, followed by inquiries about ...

Some three decades ago I became aware of the Dogon people through a book called “Conversations with Ogotemmelli,” by Marcel Griaule. For me, this interesting culture always symbolized the great ...

Mali’s Dogon Country can feel like a deliciously African evocation of the remote. Mali’s Dogon Country can feel like a deliciously African evocation of the remote. Dogon villages have no electricity.

Julius Hemphill's "Dogon A.D." — the 15-minute piece, and the album that's named for it — was one of the startling jazz recordings of the 1970s, a rethinking of possibilities open to the avant-garde.

ENSURING your partner doesn’t cheat is a perennial problem. Perhaps one solution is religion. Beverly Strassmann at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor has spent years studying the Dogon people of ...