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The social development of the Hausa child
Proceedings of the III International West African Conference held at Ibadan, Nigeria, December 1949 • Lagos, Nigeria • Published In 1956 • Pages: 164-170
By: Dry, E. A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a brief treatment of the status, activities and training of children among the Hausa. Some of the topics discussed are: desire for children, conception of the adult's role, infant training and ritual, weaning, toilet training, toys and play activities, learning of skills, etiquette, sexual differentiation, male and female economic activities, extension of social contacts, adolescent leisure activities including courtship patterns, and growth of attitudes toward authority from family relationships. At the time of publication the author was associated with the Social Science Research Council at Soba, Zaria Province, Nigeria.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Development and maturation
- Techniques of socialization
- 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
- 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.
- 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 ; 1960
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1948
- 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
- by E. Dry
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hausa (African people)