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Ouolof customs in Cayor (Circle of Thiès)
Publications du Comité d'études Historiques et Scientifiques de l'Afrique Occidentale Française • (8) • Published In 1939 • Pages: HRAF MS: 23 [Original:117-146 ]
By: Campistron, M., Cone, Michèle N..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article written by a French colonial official, is similar in content and organization to 4: Fayet of this File. The similarities and differences in customary laws between the two regions under study, Thies and Baol, can be readily seen by comparing information contained in both sources.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Extended families
- Arranging a marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Polygamy
- Family relationships
- Termination of marriage
- Administration
- Inheritance
- Gift giving
- Contracts
- 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 Thiès
- NotesAdditional notes
- M. Campistron
- Translation of: Coutume Ouolof du Cayor (Cercle de Thiès)
- The original French text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Michèle N. Cone
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Wolof (African people)