book chapter

Senegal: France in West Africa

Librairie Hachette et CieParisPublished In 1889 • Pages:

By: Faidherbe, Louis Léon César, Schütze, Frieda.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source describes French relations with the DAMELs of Cayor between 1859 and 1864 when this Wolof kingdom became part of the French colony. The author, a French general and governor of the colony, gives a detailed account of the military operations and the French involvement in the internal politics of this state.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
History
External relations
Revolution
Provinces
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.
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
Joan Steffens ; 1964
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
ca. 1854-1865
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1854-1865
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Cayor, Senegal
NotesAdditional notes
Louis Faidherbe
Translation of: Le Sénégal; la France dans l'Afrique Occidentale
The original French text is not included
Translated for the HRAF files by Frieda Schütze
Only pages 258-276 of Part 2, 'Emancipation -- Penetration,' are included in this file
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
04014712
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Wolof (African people)