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How a Hawiye tribe used to live
Somalia, scritti vari editi ed inediti • 2 • Published In 1959 • Pages: HRAF Ms: 207 [original: 203-342, 387-392 ]
By: Cerulli, Enrico, Biancani, Piero.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a collection of Somali texts written in the dialect of the Hawiye of the middle valley of the Webi. The texts are concerned with the social life of the Hawiye Somali. These texts were gathered by Cerulli during the several years he spent in the field among the Somali (1919-1922).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Lawyer
- 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.
- 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
- John Beierle ; Sigrid Khera ; 1972-1973
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1919-1922
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1919-1922
- 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
- Translation of: Come viveva una tribù Hawiyya.
- The original Italian text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Piero Biancani
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 60024993
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Somalis