book chapter
British Somaliland
Hurst & Blackett, Ltd. • London • Published In 1912 • Pages:
By: Drake-Brockman, Ralph Evelyn.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The sections of this book included here are the chapters on the Somali character. Somali ethnology, livestock, and the outcast tribes; plus the appendices, glossary, and end map. The sections not processed deal with non-tribal elements in Somaliland. The author had served about ten years in Somaliland as a member of the Colonial Medical Service at the time of publication. He presents the results of his own observations and in many cases compares them to those of earlier writers, especially on more subjective matters. Although this work is far from being an exhaustive ethnographic account, it does present useful data on a number of topics, among them Somali marriage and funeral customs, houses, plants and their uses, domestic animals, games, names, songs, judicial sanctions, and miscellaneous subjects loosely organized.
- 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
- book chapter
- 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
- George R. Bedell, Robert Lee ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1902-1910
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1902-1910
- 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
- by Ralph E. Drake-Brockman
- Pages omitted from the files: 1-85, 175-189, 221-270, 276-300
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 13000400
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Somalis