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Pulaaku in action: words at work in Wodaabe clan politics
Ethnology • 49 (3) • Published In 2010 • Pages: 207-227
By: Schareika, Nikolaus.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a fine-grained situational analysis of a marital dispute between two lineages that had come to occupy the same dry-season pasture, and how they negotiated a mutual arrangement. The author discusses how the Fulani moral code was appealed to by leaders in an effort to avoid clan fission and state mediation.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociolinguistics
- Annual cycle
- Settlement patterns
- Oratory
- Ethics
- Mode of marriage
- Lineages
- Clans
- Community councils
- Informal in-group justice
- Chief executive
- Judicial authority
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Fulani
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Ian Skoggard; 2020
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 2004
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2004
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Diffa Region, Niger
- NotesAdditional notes
- Nikolaus Schareika
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64005713
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Fula (African people)