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
Andifasi, Jaison
Kileff, Clive
Kileff, Peggy
Title:
An analysis of Roora
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Shona customs; essays by African writers, edited by Clive
and Peggy Kileff
Published By: Original publisher
Shona customs; essays by African writers, edited by Clive
and Peggy Kileff
Gwelo, Rhodesia: Mambo Press. 1970. 28-32 p. ill.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Jaison Andifasi
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2014. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Shona (FS05)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Mode of marriage (583);
Domesticated animals (231);
Arranging a marriage (584);
Gift giving (431);
Etiquette (576);
Family relationships (593);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is one of twenty essays on Shona culture and
society, written by Zimbabwean students at various secondary schools and colleges. Selected
out of a total of two hundred and eight submitted in an essay competition, the document was
originally published in an edited volume. This particular document focuses on [n]roora[/n]
(bride price).
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
28
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.
fs05-028
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
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
Indigene-5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
John Beierle; 1991
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1968-1969
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
eastern Zimbabwe
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Shona (African people)
