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Somali songs and little texts

Journal of the African SocietyLondonPublished In 1921 • Pages: [title page], 135-140, 221-226 ; 41-49 ; 47-54

By: Cerulli, Enrico.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
These songs were collected by the Cerulli from the natives of British and Italian Somaliland. The native texts which are reproduced here represent a number of regional dialects. The translations are supplemented by notes which include ethnological information. Cerulli has written extensively on the languages and literature of the peoples of northeast Africa.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Musical instruments
Literary texts
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Somali
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
1997
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.
Social Scientist
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
Robert Lee, Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1959
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
ca. 1912
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
ca. 1912
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Somalia, Djibouti, and southeastern Ethiopia
NotesAdditional notes
Enrico Cerulli
Includes bibliographical references
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
sf82006650
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Somalis