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Senegal in former times: a study of Cayor, notebooks of Yoro Dyâo
Bulletin du Comité d'études Historiques et Scientifiques de l'Afrique Occidentale Française • 16 • Published In 1933 • Pages: HRAF Ms: 116 [Original: 237-298 ]
By: Rousseau, R., Brunel, Ariane.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
From the notebooks of Yoro Dyâo, Rousseau has drawn material that is concerned primarily with political organization and traditional history. After explaining how Cayor became independent of the Wolof Empire in 1549, Dyâo retraces the life of each DAMEL (king), being careful to place him genealogically and chronologically. To understand the succession of DAMELs he points out the importance of the MENE (matrilineal family). Rousseau has compiled numerous genealogical charts based on Dyâo's account and these are presented along with a synopsis of important historical events, a map and bibliography.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- Chief executive
- Revolution
- Lineages
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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)
- Cayor, Senegal
- NotesAdditional notes
- R. Rousseau
- Translation of: Le Sénégal d'Autrefois: étude sur le Cayor, Cahiers de Yoro Dyâo
- The original French text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Ariane Brunel
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 112-116)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Wolof (African people)