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Yoruba-speaking peoples in Dahomey
Africa • 17 • Published In 1947 • Pages: 122-129
By: Parrinder, Edward Geoffrey.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a discussion of the distribution of Yoruba groups in Dahomey by a Methodist Missionary Society member who spent ten years in French West Africa, chiefly in Dahomey. The author is a recognized authority on West African religion. Included are discussion of migrations, dialect differences, and tribal indentification.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- Cities
- Ethnic stratification
- Districts
- Congregations
- Spirits and gods
- Tribe and nation
- Linguistic identification
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yoruba
- 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.
- 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 ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1938-1947
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1930-1947
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Benin
- NotesAdditional notes
- Geoffrey Parrinder
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 29010790
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yoruba (African people)