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Somali songs and little textsarticle 1921 • Cerulli, Enrico
Somali • Africa > Eastern Africa
These songs were collected by the Cerulli from the natives of British and Italian Somaliland. The native texts which are reproduced here represent a number of regional dialects. The translations are supplemented by notes which include ethnological in...Observations on the Moslem movement in Somalilandarticle 1925 • Cerulli, Enrico
Somali • Africa > Eastern Africa
This article contains information on the interrelationship of the Muslim Somali and the 'Pagans' (Cushites) who were the original inhabitants of the area. The author's first chapter is primarily devoted to the relationship of the religions of the two...The lunar stations in the astronomical ideas of the Somalis and the Danakiessay 1957 • Cerulli, Enrico
Somali • Africa > Eastern Africa
This article contains an analysis and comparison of the beliefs of the Somali and the Danakil concerning astrological lunar stations. The author probes the etymology of both the Somali and the Danakil names for these lunar stations, examines varied p...New notes on the astronomical ideas of the Somalisessay 1957 • Cerulli, Enrico
Somali • Africa > Eastern Africa
This is a brief article concerned with the Somali solar year. The author describes the cultural beliefs associated with the Somali annual time cycle as well as a detailed description of two methods used by the Migiurtini Somali to calculate their sol...The consuetudinary law of northern Somalia (Mijirtein)essay 1959 • Cerulli, Enrico
Somali • Africa > Eastern Africa
This article, dealing with various aspects of the customary law of the Migiurtini Somali, was written by Cerulli in 1916 on the basis of data gathered by him in Naples from Migiurtini Somali informants retained for that purpose. Cerulli organized the...Texts of the consuetudinary law of the Marrehân Somaliessay 1959 • Cerulli, Enrico
Somali • Africa > Eastern Africa
In this study the relationship between lower and higher castes as well as between masters and slaves, among certain Somali groups are discussed. Crime within a family, which includes slaves, is not punishable by the tribe....The origin of the lower castes of Somaliaessay 1959 • Cerulli, Enrico
Somali • Africa > Eastern Africa
After a brief descriptive summary of the three lower castes of the Somali--the Yibir, the Midgan and the Tumal--Cerulli traces the origins of each in Somali society. Cerulli presents the theories of several other area specialists on the Somali, notab...Personal names in Somaliessay 1959 • Cerulli, Enrico
Somali • Africa > Eastern Africa
In this short description of Somali names a distinction is made between the original Somali names and those adopted from Arabic. The former usually indicate a physical quality of a child, or a quality desired for it. The original meaning of the latte...How a Hawiye tribe used to liveessay 1959 • Cerulli, Enrico
Somali • Africa > Eastern Africa
This is a collection of Somali texts written in the dialect of the Hawiye of the middle valley of the Webi. The texts are concerned with the social life of the Hawiye Somali. These texts were gathered by Cerulli during the several years he spent in t...The dancing of the Somaliessay 1964 • Cerulli, Enrico
Somali • Africa > Eastern Africa
In addition to a brief discussion of some of the named dances performed by various Somali subgroups, and their functional value to the society as a whole, the greater part of this source deals in some detail with the various dance movements of a DAB-...The Somali tribeessay 1964 • Cerulli, Enrico
Somali • Africa > Eastern Africa
This document focuses on the social and political organization of the Somali people. It should be noted that the author uses the term 'peoples' to refer not only to subdivisions of the tribe which are roughly equivalent the 'gens (gentes)', but also ...New notes on Islam in Somaliaessay 1964 • Cerulli, Enrico
Somali • Africa > Eastern Africa
This work is composed of a series of previously unpublished notes, collected by Cerulli during his field work among the Somali in the period 1919-1926, and deal, in varying degree and intensity of treatment, with several aspects of Somali ethnology. ...