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The ?Auin: a contribution to the study of the Bushmen
Mitteilungen aus den deutschen Schutzgebieten • 23 • Published In 1910 • Pages: HRAF ms: 1-75 [Original: 135-160 ]
By: Kaufmann, Hans, Neuse, Richard.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This account is a general source on San culture. The author, a government official stationed in the territory, has attempted to cover a wide range of culture elements and although the detail offered is slight, the number of aspects of San life gone into is considerable. There are data on material culture, economic life and property, marriage, law, war, chieftainship, games, puberty rites, childbirth, sickness and death, medical practices, etc.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Hunting and trapping
- Diet
- Normal garb
- Ornament
- Personal grooming
- Body alterations
- Dwellings
- Weapons
- Internal trade
- Games
- Music
- Inter-community relations
- General character of religion
- Burial practices and funerals
- Numeration
- Ordering of time
- Childbirth
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- San
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- 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
- article
- 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
- Betty Potash ; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 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)
- Auen San, Namibia and Botswana
- NotesAdditional notes
- Hans Kaufmann
- Translation of: [Die Auin. Ein Beitrag zur Buschmannforschung]
- The original German text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Richard Neuse in 1961
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 15011419
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- San (African people)