book chapter
An essay on the religion of the Bambara
Presses universitaires de France • Paris • Published In 1951 • Pages: HRAF ms: iv, 293 [original: xx, 240 ]
By: Dieterlen, Germaine, Wolf, Katia.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a general work by a well-known French ethnographer dealing with Bambara religion and its relations with other aspects of the culture. The main sections of the book are concerned with mythology, the gods, the individual and his religion, sacrifice and the altar, technology and religion, the cults, various rites, and divination. Dieterlen tries to relate each individual aspect of Bambara religion to basic philosophy and world-view. She also shows the relationship of Bambara religion to other religions in the Sudan, which resemble it in most basic aspects.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Hunting and trapping
- Woven and other interworked fabrics
- Special garments
- Ornament
- Body alterations
- Smiths and their crafts
- Weapons
- General tools
- Inheritance
- Games
- Age stratification
- Castes
- Cosmology
- Mythology
- Animism
- Spirits and gods
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Bambara
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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.
- 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
- Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1960
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1946-1949
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1931-1949
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mali
- NotesAdditional notes
- Germaine Dieterlen ; préf. de Marcel Griaule
- Issued also as thesis, Université de Paris
- Translation of: [Essai sur la religion bambara]
- The original French text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Katia Wolf in 1960
- Not translated: preface and bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-235)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 54003045
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bambara (African people)