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The Fur
Sudan notes and records • 29 (I) • Published In 1948 • Pages: 1-39
By: Beaton, Arthur Charles.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This overview of traditional Fur culture and society covers such topics as historical development, relations with neighboring ethnic groups, settlement pattern, ecology, economic activities, gender-based division of labor, puberty rites, and religious practices.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Topography and geology
- Domesticated animals
- Pastoral activities
- Cereal agriculture
- Diet
- Settlement patterns
- Regulation of marriage
- Residence
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Puberty and initiation
- Religious denominations
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Fur
- 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.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2020
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1936-1938
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1898-1938
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- West Darfur, Darfur region, Sudan
- NotesAdditional notes
- By A. C. Beaton
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- unk83015138
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Fur (African people)