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Women of Dakar and the surrounding urban area
Women of tropical Africa • London • Published In 1963 • Pages: 217-229
By: Faladé, Solange.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is based on the interviews with 145 women of the Senegalese middle class, living in the center of Dakar (the Medina or African quarter) or its immediate neighborhood, and Wakum, N'Gor and Camberen. Information is given on the typical life cycle of a girl from birth through marriage, and on the daily routine of married women. Mention is made of the economic role of women and the mutual aid associations (TOUTINEs) they have formed.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Urban and rural life
- Gender status
- Conception
- Puberty and initiation
- Regulation of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Daily routine
- Pregnancy
- Polygamy
- Secondary marriages
- Mutual aid
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Physician
- Social Anthropologist
- 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
- 1955 - ca. 1960
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1955-ca. 1960
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Dakar, Senegal
- NotesAdditional notes
- Solange Faladé
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 228)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Wolof (African people)