Book
The Bambara
Presses universitaires de France • Paris • Published In 1954 • Pages: 123
By: Paques, Viviana, Turner, Thomas.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This general survey of Bambara culture is one of the series of monographs on African peoples sponsored by the International African Institute in London. The author has done field work in French West Africa. At the time she wrote the book, she was attached to the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique in Paris. This book, however, is based mostly upon published materials rather than personal observations. More than half of the book is devoted to data on demography, tribal groups, language, geography, economics and history. Cultural data include information on family and political organization, religion, birth, initiation, marriage, death, and the arts. The influence of French administration is mentioned throughout the book.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Descriptive somatology
- Ethos
- Fishing
- Tillage
- Cereal agriculture
- Normal garb
- Personal grooming
- Settlement patterns
- Mechanics
- Occupational specialization
- Ethnic stratification
- Life and death
- Mythology
- Avoidance and taboo
- Ethnobotany
- Menstruation
- 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.
- Social Scientist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Robert Lee ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1890-1954
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mali
- NotesAdditional notes
- Viviana Paques
- Translation of: Les Bambara
- Translated for the HRAF files by Thomas Turner in 1960
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [113]-119)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 55008332
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bambara (African people)