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Traditional and modern patterns of succession to political office among the Mossi of the Voltaic Republic
Journal of Human Relations • VIII (3-4) • Published In 1960 • Pages: 394-406
By: Skinner, Elliott P. (Elliott Percival).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this paper the author has described the period of political interregnum and political succession among the Mossi and how they have adapted this to meet certain political threats under the French colonial rule and to meet the demands of the present socio-political conditions in the Voltaic Republic.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- Chief executive
- Territorial hierarchy
- Inheritance
- Lineages
- Revolution
- Advisers to the chief executive
- External relations
- Elections
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mossi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- Robert J. Theodoratus ; 1962
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1955-1957
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1957
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Burkina Faso
- NotesAdditional notes
- Elliott P. Skinner
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sn 83004072
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mossi (African people)