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Some Dorobo beliefs
Man • 9 (101) • Published In 1909 • Pages: 177, plates
By: Hollis, Alfred Claud.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a brief account written by a traveler in East Africa who witnessed a morning prayer ritual and rain prevention ritual as performed by an individual who was a member of the traveling caravan.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Recording and collecting in the field
- Ritual
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Magic
- Ethnometeorology
- Linguistic identification
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Okiek
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2014
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Traveler
- 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
- Millicent Kim ; 1964
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1908
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1908
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- East Africa
- NotesAdditional notes
- A. C. Hollis
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sn 79006341
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Okiek (African people)
- Dorobo (African people)