Book
African urban life: the transformation of Ouagadougou
Princeton University Press • Princeton, N.j. • Published In 1974 • Pages:
By: Skinner, Elliott P. (Elliott Percival).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book analyzes main features of 'African urbanism' by focusing on Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso (formerly called Uppr Volta), as an example. The author views Ouagadougou as a node where a whole complex network of economic, social, and political relations meet, and argues that the attempt of people in this town to modernize and adapt to the urban milieu is characterized by a conscious manipulation of all insitutions within the town and components of urban life.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Towns
- External relations
- Internal migration
- Labor supply and employment
- Urban and rural life
- Streets and traffic
- Government enterprises
- Crime
- Trial procedure
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mossi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1964-1965
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1328-1973
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Burkina Faso
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Elliott P. Skinner
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 463-471)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 72014032
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mossi (African people)
- Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)--Social conditions