book chapter
Upper Egypt: its people and its products
Scribner, Armstrong, & Co. • New York • Published In 1878 • Pages:
By: Klunzinger, C. B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is concerned mainly with the religious and secular festivals and ceremonies held during the year in Upper Egypt. Included in the discussion are descriptions of the processions, entertainment, costumes, dancers, and musicians. Information is also given about the daily routine of both men and women and about family life and organization.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Labor and leisure
- Daily routine
- Sleeping
- Nonalcoholic beverages
- Diet
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Tillage
- Eating
- Visiting and hospitality
- Travel
- Polygamy
- Termination of marriage
- Religious denominations
- Family relationships
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Fellahin
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Physician
- 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
- Joan Steffens ; 1963
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1863-1875
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1863-1878
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Egypt
- NotesAdditional notes
- C. B. Klunzinger ; Preface by Georg Schweinfurth
- Only pages 158-203 have been processed for the MR13 Fellahin file
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 76044747
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Peasantry--Egypt
- Egypt--Social life and customs