The Pale Fox 1st Edition

by M. Griaule (Author), G. Dieterlen (Author)

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ISBN-13: 978-0939118021

ISBN-10: 0939118025

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Author: M. Griaule and G. Dieterlen - This is an important book in Dogon studies, because it was written by two of the pioneering anthropologists in the field. It focusses on a Dogon cosmology, a complex creation

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Product Details

Paperback: 560 pages
Publisher: Afrikan World Books; 1st edition (1986)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0939118025
ISBN-13: 978-0939118021
Product Dimensions: 1 x 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #691,624 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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23 of 27 people found the following review helpful

An Incredible Book

By uncletwinkie on June 27, 2010

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I am astounded that, given the wild popularity of The Sirius Mystery, which is allegedly based on this book, The Pale Fox has received no reviews. With all of the New Age industry The Sirius Mystery has generated, has no one bothered to check the source and make a comment or two? Lest the spell be broken, dare anyone say that Temple took scandalous liberties with The Pale Fox, even to the extent of making claims on behalf of the Dogon that exist nowhere in this book -? This thunderous silence is understandable I guess, when you want to believe, want to believe, and have every reason to believe - until you check the facts, and then it's too disappointing.
Personally, given the breathless liberties Temple makes throughout The Sirius Mystery, I wasn't surprised by his ultimate liberty - only disgusted. But I was surprised, unhinged, dismayed to eventually learn that Marcel Griaule himself was a fabricator. He has been thoroughly discredited for his later work, which includes this volume. The Dutch anthropologist, Walter E. A. van Beek, spent ten years among the Dogon and was unable to substantiate anything claimed in The Pale Fox. (See his "Dogon Restudied," Current Anthropology, Vol. 32, No. 2, April 1991.)
And yet, I love this book! It's thick & thorny, and very demanding of the reader's attention. But it is oddly beautiful; a terribly intricate handbook of creation - so much about seeds and stars and symbols, and the step-by-step unfurling of life in all its careful complexity. The scenario is very foreign and yet strangely real. It's hard for me to imagine that Griaule could have concocted such an elaborate, amazing account (560 pages with numerous diagrams), but if it is sheer fiction it's a wonder in itself and probably the most fabulous fairy tale ever written.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

EXCEPTIONAL

By kwadwo oppong on May 25, 2012

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This book is not for the casual reader. It is for anyone interested in the deep esoteric traditions of Africa. The authors do a wonderful job with their in-depth research. This book offers a detailed look into Dogon cosmology, botany and the concept of the place of man in the universe. It is not a one time read, it is an eternal reference. Job well done....exceptional.

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By dwayne on February 27, 2011

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This book is very good. The authors put together a very clear, detailed master piece. If you are interested in the Dogon Tribe. "The Pale Fox" is a must for anyones book shelves.

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You can't be Sirius!

By E. Worth on July 20, 2010

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In the 1930s an eccentric French ethnologist named Marcel Griaule arrived in what was then the French Sudan (modern Mali) intent on proving that the Africans were not ignorant savages with simplistic beliefs but sophisticated thinkers capable of great insights into science and philosophy and moreover that they were even the true originators of many of the mystical beliefs of the West, including the astrological Zodiac. Not surprisingly he found what he set out to find. His first test subjects were the Dogon people and sure enough he 'discovered' that they had a remarkable knowledge of the universe, including descriptions of the Big Bang, atomic theory, the nature of galaxy formation, and many other secrets of the Solar System, including the ring of Saturn and the moons of Jupiter.

His original plan was to extend this approach to other African tribes but this was cut short by his premature death in 1956. For the next nine years his long-time collaborator Germaine Dieterlen took up the standard and worked all of his material into a 500-page book, which was finally translated into English and published in the 1980s. Griaule's theories form the basis for Robert Temple's 'Sirius Mystery', which in turn inspired the modern-day religious movement based around the notion that Earth was once visited by intelligent beings from the star-system of Sirius and that this forms part of the Dogon tribe's most secret beliefs. (Ironically Sirius does not figure at all in Dogon religion).

The authors' approach is to begin with a Dogon statement (these are provided in the original language as footnotes) and then to creatively embroider it, providing interpretations in terms of modern science or Western mysticism. Typically these involve drastic reworkings of the original stories.Read more ›

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