Book
Les Songhay - Test
Presses universitaires de France • Paris • Published In 1954 • Pages: vii, 100
By: Rouch, Jean.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- 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
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Songhai
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- 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
- Ian Skoggard; 2016
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1941-1942, 1946-1951
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1941-1951
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Niger and Mali
- NotesAdditional notes
- par Jean Rouch
- "Essai de bibliographie analytique": p. [68]-97.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 56000264
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Songhai (African people)