Book
Contributions to a knowledge of the material culture of the Mende in Sierra Leone
Buchdruckerei Vogt-Schild • Solothurn • Published In 1936 • Pages:
By: Staub, Jules, Wood, Cecil.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Although suffering from excesses in literary style and poor organization, this document of few available on Mende material culture. Plates and illustrations give a good summary of the material culture of the people, but the text gives little information on social organization, social relationships and other non-material facets of culture.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Historical reconstruction
- Comparative evidence
- Territorial hierarchy
- Travel
- Food preparation
- Mats and basketry
- Fishing gear
- General tools
- Utensils
- Visual arts
- Sacred objects and places
- 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
- Book
- 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
- Leslie L. Clark ; 1958
- 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
- 1900-1936
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sierra Leone
- NotesAdditional notes
- Staub
- Translation of: [Beiträge zur Kenntnis der materiellen Kultur der Mendi in der Sierra Leone]
- Translated for the HRAF files by Cecil Wood
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 41003491
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mende (African people)