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
Cerulli, Enrico
Title:
The dancing of the Somali
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Somalia, scritti vari editi ed inediti, Vol. 3, edited by
Enrico Cerulli
Published By: Original publisher
Somalia, scritti vari editi ed inediti, Vol. 3, edited by
Enrico Cerulli
Roma: Ministero degli Affari Esteri ; Instituto
poligrafico dello Stato P.V.. 1964. HRAF Ms: 11 p. [original: 41-44 p.] ill.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Enrico Cerulli
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
Dance (535);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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-SID or Somali New Year's Day ceremony personally observed by the author
at Mahaddäy on the Webi in August 1919.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
26
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.
mo04-026
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Essay
Language: Language that the document is written in
English translation from Italian
Note:
Translation of: La danza dei Somali.|The original
Italian text is not included Includes bibliographical references Translated for the HRAF
files by Piero Biancani
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1919
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
Lawyer, Social Scientist-4,5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
John Beierle ; Sigrid Khera ; 1972
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1919
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
