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
Aguwa, Jude C. U.
Title:
Culture Summary: Mende
Published By: Original publisher
New Haven, Conn.: Human Relations Area Files. 2010. online
document
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Jude C. Aguwa
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2010. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Mende (FC07)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Identification (101);
Culture summary (105);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a culture summary of the Mende. Information is
presented on major aspects of Mende culture.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
0
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.
fc07-000
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
Note:
This culture summary is based on the article, "Mende"
by Jude C. Aguwa, in the Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Supplement, Carol R. Ember, Melvin
Ember, and Ian Skoggard, eds. New York: Macmillan Reference USA. 2002. Teferi Abate Adem
wrote the synopsis and indexing notes in May 2008. The demography section was updated with
information from the Sierra Leone census in June, 2008. Includes bibliographical
references.
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
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-4
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Teferi Abate Adem; 2008
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)
General Mende; southern and eastern Sierra
Leone, also Liberia
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Mende (African people)
