Book
The Bambara of Ségou and Kaarta: an historical, ethnographical and literary study of a people of the French Sudan
émile Larose • Paris • Published In 1924 • Pages:
By: Monteil, Charles, Looney, Kathryn A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work by a government administrator is considered one of the basic sources of information on the Bambara. It is primarily concerned with the history, beliefs, and social life of the people, with only incidental data on the material culture. From the author's descriptions, it is apparent that associations based on age grouping, religious cults, and secret societies are co-terminous; similarly, governmental and territorial control is exercised by the extended kinship group which the author terms 'clan' and which constitutes the community. As a result, data related to several aspects of the culture have often been assigned to only one of the principal categories. Chapter 7 of the original, which contains Bambara texts and their French translations, has not been processed for the file.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- Writing
- Archives
- Housekeeping
- Property system
- Gift giving
- Personal names
- Slavery
- Etiquette
- Regulation of marriage
- Clans
- Religious offenses
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Ecstatic religious practices
- Missions
- Humanistic studies
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Bambara
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- George R. Bedell ; 1960
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1902-1923
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1500-1923
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mali
- NotesAdditional notes
- Charles Monteil
- Translation of: [Les Bambara du Ségou et du Kaarta: étude Historique, Ethnographique et Littéraire d'une Peuplade du Soudan Français]
- Translated for the HRAF files by Kathryn A. Looney in 1960
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bambara (African people)