Book
Umbundu: folk tales from Angola
Beacon Press • Boston • Published In 1962 • Pages:
By: Ennis, Merlin W., Lord, Albert Bates.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is a collection of over one hundred Ovimbundu folktales organized into 18 categories by the author, an American missionary. The tales were collected by a native schoolteacher and translated by the author after he returned from the field. Alfred Lord provides an introduction discussing the structure and themes of the tales. An appendix includes a list of proverbs.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Texts translated into english
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ovimbundu
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern 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.
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1904-1944
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1904-1944
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Angola
- NotesAdditional notes
- collected and translated by Merlin Ennis ; comparative analysis by Albert B. Lord
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 62007895
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mbundu (African people)