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
Burton, Richard F[rancis], Sir,
1821-1890
Title:
First footsteps in East Africa: or an exploration of
Harar
Published By: Original publisher
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1856. HRAF
pagination: 1-135 p. [original: xl, 648 p.] map [incomplete]
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
by Richard F. Burton
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 a travel account of an officer of the British
Indian Army. It is valuable as one of the earliest accounts of the Somali of British
Somaliland and their way of life. The information included here includes descriptions of
food, clothing, weapons and tools, domestic animals, tribal distribution, sports and games,
dwellings, native fauna and flora, and the character of the inhabitants as seen by a
colonial army officer.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
11
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.
mo04-011
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
Note:
Only the following pages are included: 21-24, 27, 29,
33-34, 41-48, 55-60, 69-71, 74-75, 81-83, 85-91, 94, 103-123, 127, 142-143, 148-151,
154-155, 158-161, 163, 173-182, 185, 188, 198-200, 204, 206-208, 210, 213-216, 219-255,
228-229, 232-233, 238-239, 241-248, 257-259, 262-266, 277-280, 379-380, 391, 402-403
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1854-1855
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
Government Official-5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Robert Lee ; 1959
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1854-1855
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
