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Culture Summary: Mende
Human Relations Area Files • New Haven, Conn. • Published In 2010 • Pages:
By: Aguwa, Jude C. U..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a culture summary of the Mende. Information is presented on major aspects of Mende culture.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mende
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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
- essay
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2008
- 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
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- General Mende; southern and eastern Sierra Leone, also Liberia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jude C. Aguwa
- This culture summary is based on the article, "Mende" by Jude C. Aguwa, in the Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Supplement, Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, and Ian Skoggard, eds. New York: Macmillan Reference USA. 2002. Teferi Abate Adem wrote the synopsis and indexing notes in May 2008. The demography section was updated with information from the Sierra Leone census in June, 2008.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mende (African people)