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The Hausa of northern Nigeria
Peoples of Africa • New York • Published In 1965 • Pages: 119-155
By: Smith, M. G. (Michael Garfield).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This brief descriptive article is an introduction to the culture and society of the Muslim Hausa of northern Nigeria. It includes standard anthropological topical coverage with sections on economy, territorial organization, political organization, kinship organization, child training and socialization, religion, and change.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hausa
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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
- essay
- 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
- Marlene Martin ; Martin Malone ; 1974
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1949-1959
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1900-1965
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- M. G. Smith ; chapter introduction by James L. Gibbs, Jr.
- Includes bibliographical references (p.153-155)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 65010276
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hausa (African people)