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Youth organisation among the Fur
Sudan notes and records • 24 • Published In 1941 • Pages: 181-187
By: Beaton, Arthur Charles.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of youth organizations in traditional Fur society. It begins by noting that the Fur lacked age grades of the kinds found in many parts of Eastern Africa and beyond. Yet, the Fur recognized the centrality of age for understanding the changing roles and responsibilities expected of individuals and groups. Children enjoyed a great deal of freedom to play a variety of games. Adolescents assumed increasingly important roles, including policing their village communities and helping their respective households with agricultural labor, especially in peak seasons, through informal mechanisms for labor exchange and cooperation.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Age stratification
- Childhood activities
- Adolescent activities
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Property offenses
- Mutual aid
- Labor supply and employment
- Gender roles and issues
- Division of labor by gender
- Development and maturation
- Puberty and initiation
- Ethnopsychology
- 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.
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2020
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1936-1938
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Darfur region, Sudan
- NotesAdditional notes
- By A. C. Beaton
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- unk83015138
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Fur (African people)