book chapter
Contributions to a socio-economic survey of the Gambia
Research Department, Colonial Office • London • Published In 1949 • Pages:
By: Gamble, David P..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is concerned mostly with the Mandinka. Materials on the Wolof are used mainly for comparative purposes. the village of Njau was studied for information on settlement pattern, land utilization, agricultural technique, individual income and expenditures. The report was made under the auspices of the Colonial Science Research Council.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Settlement patterns
- Dwellings
- Income and demand
- Standard of living
- Gender status
- Flora
- Land use
- Tillage
- 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 chapter
- 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
- Robert Lee ; 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)
- village of Njau, Upper Saloum
- NotesAdditional notes
- David P. Gamble
- Only pp. 19, 31-32, 47, 104-108, 129-132, 149 are included in this file
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Wolof (African people)