(Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen)

Content: Germaine Dierterlen talks about Dogon mythology at a conference on the Bandiagara cliffs. The Songo canopy is a sacred site in Bandiagara. Its walls are covered with paintings depicting the different phases of creation. A little further on, in a cave near the village of Bongo, symposium participants are discussing the Tellem, the people who lived in the houses built into the cliffs before the arrival of the Dogon. The archaeological remains and migratory movements of these two peoples are discussed.

Countries:

France,

Mali

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

27 minutes

Year:

1977

Directors:

Jean Rouch

Production companies:

CNRS Images,

Comité du film Éthnographique

Actors:

herself

Crews:

Director