Language:
English
Edition:
eHRAF World Cultures
Series Statement:
eHRAF World Cultures
Keywords:
Mossi (African people)
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Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)--Social conditions
Abstract:
This collection of 10 documents covers historical, cultural, and geographical information on the Mossi people from their first conquest by French colonialists in 1896/1897 to the emergence of Burkina Faso as an independent nation in 1961. The earliest account of pre-colonial Mossi culture and society in this collection was compiled by Mangin, a Catholic missionary who worked among the Mossi at the turn of the 20th century. Two documents focus on political and social structures as observed in 1908-1916 by Tauxier, a French colonial administrator with a long association with traditional Mossi leaders. The remaining seven documents were compiled by two American anthropologists, Skinner and Hammond, and are based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Ouagadougou and other parts of Mossi country mostly in 1954-1957. In one document Skinner discusses urbanization and modernization issues based on data and interviews from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the 1964-1965 and later on in 1966-1969 when the author served as the Ambassador of the United States to Burkina Faso. The Mossi are a Voltaic-speaking people located mostly in the West African nation of Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta). The Mossi are historically noted for their empire, which lasted for at least five centuries until conquest by the French at the end of the nineteenth century
Description / Table of Contents:
Mossi - Gregory A. Finnegan - 2009 -- - Essay on the manners and customs of the Mossi people in the western Sudan - Eugène Mangin - 1921 -- - Economic change and Mossi acculturation - Peter B. Hammond - 1959 -- - The black population of the Sudan, Mossi and Gourounsi country, documents and analyses - Louis Tauxier - 1912 -- - The black population of Yatenga - L. Tauxier - 1917 -- - Christianity and Islam among the Mossi - Elliott P. Skinner - 1958 -- - Traditional and modern patterns of succession to political office among the Mossi of the Voltaic Republic - Elliott P. Skinner - 1960 -- - Mossi joking - Peter B. Hammond - 1964 -- - The Mossi of the Upper Volta - Elliott Percival Skinner - 1964 -- - Trade and market among the Mossi people - By Elliott P. Skinner - 1962 -- - African urban life: the transformation of Ouagadougou - by Elliott P. Skinner - [1974]
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