{"product_id":"the-dogon-paradigm-crisis-and-continuity-allen-schery-9781968950156","title":"The Dogon Paradigm-Crisis and Continuity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Dogon Paradigm: Crisis and Continuity\u003c\/strong\u003e is a sweeping anthropological and philosophical inquiry into the symbolic, ecological, and cosmological systems of the Dogon people of Mali. Allen Schery-anthropologist, author, museum designer, and creative strategist-offers a manuscript that refuses reduction, embracing recursive depth, artifact logic, and indigenous epistemologies. This is not a static ethnography, nor a simplified cultural portrait. It is a living system of ideas, unfolding through dialogic chapters that integrate archaeological evidence, ethnographic thick description, comparative mythology, pigment technologies, and philosophical reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of the Dogon paradigm lies a recursive logic: crisis is not collapse, but transformation; continuity is not stasis, but adaptation. Schery traces this logic through material expressions-granaries, altars, masks, pigments, ritual choreography-revealing how Dogon knowledge encodes symbolic compression, ecological attunement, and mythic time. These artifacts are not inert objects but active vessels of meaning, bridging cosmology and ecology, memory and ritual, rupture and repair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book challenges Western epistemologies by foregrounding indigenous modes of knowing, resisting linearity and embracing layered meaning. Schery's prose is expansive yet precise, demanding interpretive rigor and honoring the breath of human thought. Each chapter builds upon the last, not as a sequence but as a spiral-revisiting, recontextualizing, and reanimating core themes. The manuscript is structured to provoke, to teach, and to defend: it is a manifesto for cultural literacy, a blueprint for interdisciplinary scholarship, and a tribute to the resilience of indigenous systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for anthropologists, philosophers, curators, and readers committed to intellectual depth, The Dogon Paradigm is also a challenge to the publishing world: to honor artifact placement, narrative integrity, and the ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Allen Schery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 196895015X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781968950156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brooklyn Bridge Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.15d","brand":"Allen Schery","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48454371148031,"sku":"9781968950156","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_41758f1c-2f62-4443-b04d-6aa7b143532e.jpg?v=1777305801","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-dogon-paradigm-crisis-and-continuity-allen-schery-9781968950156","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}