book chapter

The southern Nilo-Hamites

International African Institute (8)Published In 1953 • Pages: i-viii, 9-152

By: Huntingford, George Wynn Brereton.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a general, secondary-source culture summary of the Maasai based on material published as late as 1953. While the treatment is necessarily brief, nevertheless it provides adequate general information on the history and the social and political structure of the Maasai. At the same time it points to the gaps and inconsistencies in the published data.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Culture summary
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 chapter
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Social Anthropologist
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
Amal Vinogradov ; 1965
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
1800-1953
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 G. W. B. Huntingford
Only pp. vi-vii, 9-17, 102-126, and 140-146, which pertain to the Maasai, are included here
Includes bibliographical references (p. 140) and index
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
54001745
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Masai (African people)