TY  - CHAP
AU  - Leroi-Gourhan, André
PY  - 1953
DA  - 1953//
TI  - French Somaliland
BT  - Ethnologie de l'Union Francaise
SP  - HRAF Ms: 1-23 [original: 422-44, 467-468 ]
VL  - Vol. 1
PB  - Presses universitaires de France
CY  - Paris
KW  - Somalis
KW  - Somali
AB  - This is an ethnography of French Somaliland. The first nine pages of the study deal exclusively with the archaeology and pre-history of the region. The author touches briefly on pastoral activities, food and food preparation, dwellings, furnishings and normal dress. Social organization of the tribes is treated briefly as well as the general Somali attitude toward prestige and honor. Circumcision and excision are the subjects treated most fully with considerable information on marriage customs included. In the last seven pages, the author gives an interesting description of Somali literature, with many illustrative examples of the maxims, proverbs, and riddles common in Somali folk-lore. The author, a French ethnologist, worked largely from secondary source material.
UR  - https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=mo04-013
LA  - English
N1  - by André Leroi-Gourhan
ID  - mo04-013
Y1  - 2022-06-27
ER  -