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Senegal in former times: a study of Toubé, papers of Rawane Boy
Bulletin du Comité d'études Historiques et Scientifiques de l'Afrique Occidentale Française • 14 • Published In 1932 • Pages: HRAF Ms: 41 [Original: 334-364 ]
By: Rousseau, R., Schütze, Frieda.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study of the political organization and history of the province of Toubé (a land divided between the kingdoms of Walo and Cayor) is based primarily upon the papers of Rawane Boy, a descendant of the chiefly families. Information is also included on the early relations with the French.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- Territorial hierarchy
- Districts
- External relations
- History
- 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.
- 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
- Joan Steffens ; 1964
- 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)
- Province of Toubé, Senegal
- NotesAdditional notes
- R. Rousseau
- Translation of: Le Sénégal d'Autrefois: étude sur le Toubé, Papiers de Rawane Boy
- The original French text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Frieda Schütze
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Wolof (African people)