Dakar-Djibouti mission [1931-1933]: counter-investigations

Description

Led by Marcel Griaule, the Dakar-Djibouti ethnographic and linguistic mission (1931-1933) crossed Africa from west to east for twenty months. Through a series of surveys and collections, it brought back several thousand objects, naturalist specimens, manuscripts, photographs and sound recordings, now preserved at the Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac and other French institutions.
The fruit of collective African and European research, this book offers a contemporary re-reading of the mission through counter-investigations based on local traces and testimonies. It sheds light on the African actors and female figures, who are often overlooked, describes the conditions under which they were acquired, examines the memorial and scientific issues surrounding this colonial era, and highlights the cultural and relational transformations it engendered.
This is a ground-breaking multivocal and collaborative perspective that sheds light on the grey areas of this historic expedition.

Characteristics

Edited by :
Éric Jolly, anthropologist, director of research at the CNRS, Institut des mondes africains (IMAF, UMR 8171).
Marianne Lemaire, anthropologist, research fellow at the CNRS, Institute of African Worlds (IMAF, UMR 8171).
Salia Malé, PhD in ethnology. Research director and former deputy director general of the National Museum of Mali, coordinator or principal researcher of several research programmes and projects, expert heritage consultant.


Number of pages: 244
Number of illustrations: 210
Publication date: 10/04/2025
Dimensions: 19.5 cm x 27 cm
Publishers: Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, El Viso
Categories: Bookshop & Media, Quai Branly's Editions