ABSTRACT
There are German scholars who so much admire Shakespeare that they sometimes call him ‘our Shakespeare’. I have something of this feeling about the Dogon. Yet, would Dogon studies strike this note of sympathy if they had been actually carried out by the English? If the Nuer had been studied by the Missions Griaule how much more would we know about them today. How much poorer our knowledge of Dogon culture, if we ourselves had studied them.
