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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Mayer, Philip
Title:
Gusii initiation ceremonies
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great
Britain and Ireland -- Vol. 83, no. 1
Published By: Original publisher
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great
Britain and Ireland -- Vol. 83, no. 1
London: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain
and Ireland, etc.. 1952. 9-36 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Philip Mayer
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2000. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Gusii (FL08)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Body alterations (304);
Music (533);
Musical instruments (534);
Lineages (613);
Clans (614);
Puberty and initiation (881);
Interlinear translations (903);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article describes in great detail the traditional
initiation ceremonies of males and females in Gusii society as they approach or arrive at
puberty. Mayer notes cultural differences in the rites for Gusii youth, and changes with
time, and to some extent, as the result of contact with non-Gusii cultures (e.g.,
missionaries).
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
18
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
fl08-018
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Journal Article
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 36)
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1946-1949
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is 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
Sociologist-5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
John Beierle ; 2005
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1900-1949
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Nyanza Province, southwestern Kenya
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Gusii (African people)
