Book
The Soul of an African people: The Bambara: their psychic, ethical, religious and social life
Aschendorff • Münster I. W. • Published In 1910 • Pages: v, 238 , [24] leaves of plates
By: Henry, Jos. (Joseph), Coleman, Anne R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This volume is a study of the religion and some aspects of the life cycle of the Bambara by a French Roman Catholic missionary who had spent some years among them around the turn of the century. In the course of the work, Henry discusses the Bambara mentality and taboos, animism, general ideas on human life, Bambara ideas of God and other beings, fetishism, cults and sacrifices, the early life of the Bambara, circumcision and excision, marriage and death. Henry's views on the Bambara are highly colored by his own religious background, but, allowing for this, he was a very perceptive observer of Bambara life.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Descriptive somatology
- Ethos
- Normal garb
- Body alterations
- Water supply
- Domestic service
- Utensils
- Borrowing and lending
- Life and death
- Burial practices and funerals
- Cosmology
- Mythology
- Animism
- Difficult and unusual births
- Abortion and infanticide
- Activities of the aged
- 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.
- Missionary
- 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
- Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1960
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1900
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1910
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mali
- NotesAdditional notes
- Joseph Henry
- Translation of: [L'ame d'un peuple Africain. Les Bambara leur vie psychique, ethique, sociale, religieuse]
- Translated for the HRAF files by Anne Coleman in 1960
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bambara (African people)