Book
Marriage and the family in northern Somaliland
East African Institute of Social Research • (15) • Published In 1962 • Pages: vi, 51
By: Lewis, I. M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source presents a study of Somali marriage and family patterns based on the author's field experience in northern Somaliland (then the British Somaliland Protectorate) between September 1955 and June 1957.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Marriage
- Family
- 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
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- John Beierle ; Sigrid Khera ; 1972
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1955-1957
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1955-1957
- 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 I. M. Lewis
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-51)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77026974
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Somalis