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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Cerulli, Enrico
Title:
The Somali tribe
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: 108 p. [original: 45-113, 225-226, 229 p.]
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
Kin groups (610);
Territorial hierarchy (631);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 to groups organized territorially, not 'gentilitially' (by
genealogical connections). Data contained in this document deal with the origin and
extinction of the kin 'group', the roles and functions of the hereditary and tribal chiefs,
the tribal assembly, the 'adopted' of the tribe and their integration into Somali customs,
various functional aspects of Somali customary law, and a lengthy concluding chapter on
Somali pastoralists and their relationship to the agricultural peoples living along the
major rivers of Somalia.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
27
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.
mo04-027
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 tribù somala.|The original Italian
text is not included Includes bibliographical references Translated for the HRAF files by
Piero Biancani.|Data on the following ethnic groups have been indexed for additional OWC
codes: for information on the 'freed'--the negro agriculturists living along the
rivers--the heading Negroid Somaliland Peoples MO05 has been used; for the city tribes of
Mogadiscio--Somali Republic MO01; for the Kaffa people--Kafficho MP14; for the Galla of
Kenya--Galla FL07 and for the Macha (Gimma) MP18. References to the Ethiopian Galla will be
found on pp. 89-94 and 96-99.
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
ca. 1920
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).
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
