Somali Proverbs and Poems as Acculturation Indices
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7994935 |
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| Authors | Leonard W Doob, Ismael M Hurreh |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 552-552 |
| Publication date | 1970-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Opinion Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-362X • E-ISSN: 1537-5331 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/267840 |
| OpenAlex | W2164673446 |
| Language | EN |
The authors hypothesize that familiarity with the oral tradition of a non-literate society will vary inversely with the speaker's acculturation to Western norms. Their investigation of this hypothesis leads to an unexpected finding, which suggests that the Somali cultural heritage serves different functions for different social groups
Acculturation · Ethnic group · Linguistics · Poetry · Sociology · Somali · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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