Laird Scranton's Writings
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Apr.25.2009
Encyclopedia of African Religion - by Molefi Kete Asante (Editor), Ama Mazama (Temple University)
I was invited by Temple University to write three Dogon-related articles for this encyclopedia of African religion.
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Apr.25.2009
Anthropology News (Vol 48, Number 4)
From 1931 through 1956, French anthropologists Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen conducted studies of the Dogon tribe along the cliffs of the Bandiagara escarpment, not far from the Niger River in Mali, West Africa. During these studies, Griaule and Dieterlen documented the existence of a detailed Dogon cosmology, seemingly cast in the classic themes,...
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About Laird
Laird Scranton is an independent researcher of ancient cosmology and language. His studies in comparative cosmology have served help synchronize aspects of ancient African, Egyptian, Vedic, Chinese, Polynesian and other world cosmologies, and have led to an...