Book
The Wolof of Saloum: social structure and rural development in Senegal
Center for Agricultural Publishing and Documentation • Wageningen • Published In 1978 • Pages:
By: Venema, L. B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is based on the author's fieldwork among the Wolof in Senegal from April 1971 to June 1972, and from December 1972 to March 1973. The study presented here attempts to determine the pattern of cooperation and cohesion in several Wolof communities and to analyze their significance for planned rural development. Some of the major topics discussed in this monograph deal with the theoretical and hypothetical relations between islamization, cultivation of cash crops and abolition of slavery on one hand, and stratification, cooperation and cohesion on the other; the political history of the Wolof states; changing political conditions after the fall of traditional rulership; agricultural development policies; technical and economic aspects of the Wolof system of farming; socio-cultural changes in the system of stratification in Wolof communities; and patterns of cooperation and cohesion in descent groups, age groups, local groups, status groups, and in affinal relations (p.1).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cereal agriculture
- Vegetable production
- Real property
- Labor supply and employment
- Cooperative organization
- Classes
- Slavery
- Lineages
- Clans
- Territorial hierarchy
- External relations
- 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
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1971-1973
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1971-1973
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- villages of Thysse, Sonkorong, N'Dakhar Karim; chiefdom of Saloum, Senegal
- NotesAdditional notes
- L. B. Venema
- Thesis -- Wageningen
- Summaries in English, Dutch and French
- 'Stellingen' inserted
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-190)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Wolof (African people)