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Somali songs and little texts
Journal of the African Society • London • Published 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