Publication Information The main body of the Publication Information page contains all the metadata that HRAF holds for that document.
Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Leroi-Gourhan, André, 1911-
Title:
French Somaliland
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Ethnologie de l'Union Francaise -- Vol. 1
Published By: Original publisher
Ethnologie de l'Union Francaise -- Vol. 1
Paris: Presses universitaires de France. 1953. HRAF Ms:
1-23 [original: 422-44, 467-468 p.]
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
by André Leroi-Gourhan
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 1997. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Somali (MO04)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an ethnography of French Somaliland. The first nine
pages of the study deal exclusively with the archaeology and pre-history of the region. The
author touches briefly on pastoral activities, food and food preparation, dwellings,
furnishings and normal dress. Social organization of the tribes is treated briefly as well
as the general Somali attitude toward prestige and honor. Circumcision and excision are the
subjects treated most fully with considerable information on marriage customs included. In
the last seven pages, the author gives an interesting description of Somali literature,
with many illustrative examples of the maxims, proverbs, and riddles common in Somali
folk-lore. The author, a French ethnologist, worked largely from secondary source
material.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
13
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.
mo04-013
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Component part(s), monograph
Language: Language that the document is written in
English translation from French
Note:
Translation of: La Somalie Francaise.|The original
French text is not included Translated for the HRAF files by Bernard Scholl
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
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
Ethnologist-4
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
John Beierle ; 1960
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
not specified
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Somalia, Djibouti, and southeastern
Ethiopia
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Somalis
