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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Cerulli, Enrico
Title:
Texts of the consuetudinary law of the Marrehân Somali
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Somalia, scritti vari editi ed inediti, Vol. 2, edited by
Enrico Cerulli
Published By: Original publisher
Somalia, scritti vari editi ed inediti, Vol. 2, edited by
Enrico Cerulli
Roma: A Cura dell'Amministrazione Fiduciaria Italiana
della Somalia ; Instituto poligrafico dello Stato P.V.. 1959. HRAF Ms: 18 p.
[original:75-86 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
Social stratification (560);
Legal norms (671);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
22
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.
mo04-022
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: Testi di diritto consuetudinario dei
Somali Marrehân.|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
1917
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.
Sigrid Khera ; 1971-1972
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
