Question

Our author tells us about studies of the Dogon people carried out by one Professor Griaule, both before and after World War Two. What are three problems with these studies that the author points out. You may answer with a paragraph or two of writing or simply with bullet points.

Answer 1

• Born in Griaute received a good education and was preparing to become an engineer and enrolled at the prestigious when in 1917 at the end of World War I he volunteered to become a pilot in the French Air Force.

• In 1920 he returned to university , where he attended the lectures of Marcel Mauss and Marcel Cohen . Intrigued by anthropology, he gave up plans for a technical career . In 1927 he received a degree from the Ecole Nationle de Langues Orientales, where he concentrated on Amharjc and Ge'ez.