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Senegalese legends and customs: notebooks of Yoro Dyâo
Revue d'Ethnographie et de Sociologie • 3 • Published In 1912 • Pages: HRAF Ms: 69 [Original: 119-137, 191-202 ]
By: Gaden, Henri, Schütze, Frieda.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author, a colonial administrator, draws his material from the notes of Yoro Dyâo, a native chief. The sections of the notebooks presented and commented on in this source are the Legend of nDyadyane nDyaye and of the founding of the Dyolof empire, and the nomination of and installation of kings in the six countries of Senegal. Much information is given on the social and political organization.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Traditional history
- Classes
- Chief executive
- Lineages
- Deliberative councils
- Territorial hierarchy
- 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.
- Unknown
- 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)
- West Africa
- NotesAdditional notes
- Henri Gaden
- Translation of: Légendes et Coutumes Sénégalaises: Cahiers de Yoro Dyâo
- The original French text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Frieda Schütze
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 38038165
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Wolof (African people)