Book
The Wolof of Senegambia: together with notes on the Lebu and the Serer
International African Institute • (14) • Published In 1957 • Pages: 110
By: Gamble, David P..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is the basic synthetic work on the Wolof by a professional anthropologist. Sections are included on demography, history, language, physical environment, economics, socio-political organization, the life cycle, religion, and so on. An excellent bibliography is included. A short description is included of the Lebu, a group of 36,000 (as of 1949) who split off from the Wolof between 1790 and 1810.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Linguistic identification
- Tillage
- Diet
- History
- Settlement patterns
- Food quest
- Religious denominations
- Naming
- Community structure
- Rule of descent
- Kin relationships
- Body alterations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Wolof
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- James R. Leary ; 1959
- 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
- ca. 1948
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Senegambia region
- NotesAdditional notes
- David P. Gamble
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-92)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 59001106
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Wolof (African people)