Book
Baba of Karo, a woman of the Muslim Hausa
Farber and Farber • London • Published In 1954 • Pages:
By: Baba of Karo, Smith, Mary Felice.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an autobiography of a Hausa woman whose story begins at about the time of the British occupation of northern Nigeria at the end of the ninteenth century and continues to 1950. It was recorded in Hausa by Mary F. Smith during an eighteen month field study of a series of Hausa villages by Smith and her husband. In the form of personal recollections of conditions and events through the half-century, Baba's account is concerned primarily with domestic affairs; it also treats women's role in economic activities, religious rites of the BORI or pagan spirit cults, and cultural attitudes toward numerous changes made in the period. As it is related by a woman to a woman ethnologist, it presents much material which would otherwise be unavailable in a society practicing wife seclusion. The introduction gives a culture summary of the Hausa as a background for the autobiography.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hausa
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- 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
- Book
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- George R. Bedell ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1949-1950
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1900-1950
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- by M. F. Smith ; with an introduction and notes by M. G. Smith, Ph.D. ; preface by Daryll Forde
- Includes index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 54004526
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hausa (African people)