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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Lewis, I. M.
Title:
Marriage and the family in northern Somaliland
Published By: Original publisher
Kampala, Uganda: East African Institute of Social
Research. 1962. vi, 51 p. ill.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
by I. M. Lewis
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
Marriage (580);
Family (590);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source presents a study of Somali marriage and family
patterns based on the author's field experience in northern Somaliland (then the British
Somaliland Protectorate) between September 1955 and June 1957.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
31
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.
mo04-031
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Monograph
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-51)
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1955-1957
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-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).
1955-1957
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
