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Customs of the Moslem Ouolof (Circle of Baol)
Publications de Comité d'études Historiques et Scientifiques de l'Afrique Occidentale Française • (8) • Published In 1939 • Pages: HRAF MS: 38 [Original: 147-193 ]
By: Fayet, M. J. C., Cone, Michèle N..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Fayet, a French colonial administrator, discusses various Wolof institutions such as family, marriage, kinship, property rights, inheritance, gifts, contracts, and liability primarily from the judicial or legal point of view.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Kin relationships
- Polygamy
- Nuptials
- Arranging a marriage
- Sex and marital offenses
- Termination of marriage
- Family relationships
- Administration
- Real property
- Burial practices and funerals
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- 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
- Robert Lee ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- 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)
- Circle of Baol
- NotesAdditional notes
- M. J. C. Fayet
- Translation of: Coutume des Ouolof Musulmans (Cercle du Baol)
- The original French text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Michèle N. Cone
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Wolof (African people)