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The Dogon Paradigm-Crisis and Continuity

By Allen Schery

The Dogon Paradigm-Crisis and Continuity

By Allen Schery

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The Dogon Paradigm: Crisis and Continuity is a sweeping anthropological and philosophical inquiry into the symbolic, ecological, and cosmological systems of the Dogon people of Mali. Allen Schery-anthropologist, author, museum designer, and creative strategist-offers a manuscript that refuses reduction, embracing recursive depth, artifact logic, and indigenous epistemologies. This is not a static ethnography, nor a simplified cultural portrait. It is a living system of ideas, unfolding through dialogic chapters that integrate archaeological evidence, ethnographic thick description, comparative mythology, pigment technologies, and philosophical reflection. At the heart of the Dogon paradigm lies a recursive logic: crisis is not collapse, but transformation; continuity is not stasis, but adaptation. Schery traces this logic through material expressions-granaries, altars, masks, pigments, ritual choreography-revealing how Dogon knowledge encodes symbolic compression, ecological attunement, and mythic time. These artifacts are not inert objects but active vessels of meaning, bridging cosmology and ecology, memory and ritual, rupture and repair. The book challenges Western epistemologies by foregrounding indigenous modes of knowing, resisting linearity and embracing layered meaning. Schery's prose is expansive yet precise, demanding interpretive rigor and honoring the breath of human thought. Each chapter builds upon the last, not as a sequence but as a spiral-revisiting, recontextualizing, and reanimating core themes. The manuscript is structured to provoke, to teach, and to defend: it is a manifesto for cultural literacy, a blueprint for interdisciplinary scholarship, and a tribute to the resilience of indigenous systems. Written for anthropologists, philosophers, curators, and readers 
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
464
Release Date:
2025-10-13
Publication Date:
2026-01-10
Publisher:
Brooklyn Bridge Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
196895015X
ISBN13:
9781968950156
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Maximum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
748 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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