book chapter
Hausa folk lore: customs, proverbs, etc. In two volumes
The Clarendon Press • Oxford, England • Published In 1913 • Pages:
By: Rattray, R. S. (Robert Sutherland), Marett, R.R. (Robert Ranulph).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a collection of traditional Hausa tales and customs, presented in the Hausa script, transliterated and translated by Rattray. Only those sections which contain the English translation are included here. The subjects included are Rattray's commentary on his work and the Hausa language, the table of Hausa alphabet writing signs, Hausa traditional history and their conversion to the Muslim religion, and customs related to marriage, birth, naming, circumcision and clitoridectomy, funerals, trading, casting of brass figures, and the tanning and dyeing of leather. Rattray was District Commissioner in Ashanti, West Africa, and spoke Hausa and other African languages.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Literature
- 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 chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Government Official
- 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 ; 1959-1960
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1900
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- Collected and transliterated with English translation and notes by R. Sutherland Rattray, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I. ; with a preface by R. R. Marett, M.A.
- Only the following pages are included in the HRAF collection: Vol. I: x-xxiv, 1-34, Vol. II: 148-248, 281-286, 308-314
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 13021510
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hausa (African people)