Book
The Masai: their language and folklore
The Clarendon Press • Oxford, England • Published In 1905 • Pages:
By: Hollis, Alfred Claud, Eliot.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This an account of the Maasai written by a British colonial officer. Except for a large section on Maasai language and grammar, the rest of the book is translations of Maasai texts dealing primarily with folklore, stories, proverbs, and songs. Data is presented in narrative, disjointed fashion and there is no attempt at organizing it nor treating it from any theoretical viewpoint. A wealth of data is included on Maasai apparel, ornaments, medicine, diet and weapons. A lenghty introduction by C. Eliot attempts a brief ethnographic summary of the Maasai, locates them geographically and delves briefly into their racial and linguistic affiliations with neighboring peoples.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Language
- Literary texts
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Maasai
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern 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.
- Government Official
- 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
- Amal Vinogradov ; 1965
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1893-1912, 1918-1924
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1854-1904
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kenya and Tanzania
- NotesAdditional notes
- by A. C. Hollis ; introduction by Sir Charles Eliot
- Includes index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Masai (African people)