Book
Les Songhay - Test
Presses universitaires de France • Paris • Published In 1954 • Pages: vii, 100
By: Rouch, Jean.
Abstract
This French language monograph provides an overview of Songhai people, culture, and history, including discussions of language, economy (agriculture, livestock raising, fishing), social organization, property, gender, facial tattooing, life cycle, and religion (cosmology, cults, magic). There is an extensive annotated bibliography on the region's geography, archeology, history, anthropology, demography, linguistics, dictionaries, economy, arts, and religion.
- Subjects
- Identification
- Information sources listed in other works
- Speech
- Linguistic identification
- Fishing
- Tillage
- Cereal agriculture
- Domesticated animals
- Smiths and their crafts
- Real property
- Retail marketing
- Gender status
- Castes
- Classes
- Slavery
- Lineages
- Clans
- Cosmology
- Spirits and gods
- Magicians and diviners
- Religious denominations
- Puberty and initiation
- culture
- Songhai
- HRAF PubDate
- 2016
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Western Africa
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2016
- Field Date
- 1941-1942, 1946-1951
- Coverage Date
- 1941-1951
- Coverage Place
- Niger and Mali
- Notes
- par Jean Rouch
- "Essai de bibliographie analytique": p. [68]-97.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- a 56000264
- LCSH
- Songhai (African people)