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Notes on the For Tribe of Central Africa
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh • 13 • Published In 1886 • Pages: 205-265
By: Felkin, Robert William.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Generally shallow and given to racial stereotypes, this nevertheless is an early systematic account of Darfur culture and society by an anthropologically-trained European, based on personal observations and interviews with a young Darfurian man the author hired as domestic servant. Themes covered include economic activities, marriage customs and family life, organization of village communities, aspects of traditional governance under the Fur Sultanate, and relations with neighboring ethnic groups.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Location
- Tillage
- Cereal agriculture
- Vegetable production
- Hunting and trapping
- Fishing
- Diet
- Food preparation
- Settlement patterns
- Community heads
- Form and rules of government
- Chief executive
- Provinces
- Districts
- Military organization
- Instigation of war
- Warfare
- Regulation of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- General character of religion
- Priesthood
- 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
- 1879-1885
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1879-1885
- 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 Dr. Robert W. Felkin
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 08014543
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Fur (African people)