Fula Language Papers of David P Gamble

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0102 MS 380574
Held at	: School of Oriental and African Studies   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.soas.ac.uk/Archives/home.html ›
Full title	: Fula Language Papers of David P Gamble
Date(s)	: 1958
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 folder
Name of creator(s)	: Gamble | David Percy | b 1920 | scholar on the Gambia

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

David Gamble was employed by the Colonial Office during the late 1940s and 1950s, and his published works include extensive monographs on the Fula, Wolof and Mandinka languages of the Gambia. He has also written extensively on Fula custom and the history of the Gambia, and worked at the Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University, during the 1970s and 1980s. The Fula language is spoken in an area from the Gambia to Guinea Bissau, West Africa. Publications: Contributions to a socio-economic survey of the Gambia (Colonial Office Research Department, 1949); Economic Conditions in Two Mandinka Villages (Colonial Office Research Department, 1953); Mandinka Reading Book (1956); The Wolof of Senegambia ... with notes on the Lebu and the Serer (1957); Bibliography of the Gambia (1967); with Louise Sperling, A general bibliography of the Gambia [1979]; The Gambia (c1988); edited, with P E H Hair, Richard Jobson's The discovery of River Gambra (1999).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Typescript papers, 1958, of David P Gamble of the Colonial Office on the Fula language, comprising Firdu Fula Grammar, Gambia Fula Verb List, and Fula-English Vocabulary (Gambian dialects).

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

Finding aids:

Database.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated to SOAS Library by Professor David Arnott in September 1991.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The School of Oriental and African Studies holds the papers of D W Arnott (Ref: MS 380416).

Publication note:

The three papers were published by the Research Department, Colonial Office, in 1958.

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Revised by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Source: British Library OPAC.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Apr 2002