Tauxier, Louis. Le Noir du Yatenga. Paris, Larose: 1917

Chapter 1 "Le lieu"
Chapter 2 "La race et son histoire"
Chapter 3 "Le travail"
Chapter 4 "La famille"
Chapter 5 "Le mode d'existence"
Chapter 6 "Relations interfamiliales et Structure Sociale"
Chapter 7 "Les pouvoirs publics"
Chapter 8 "La religion"
Chapter 9 "Les Cultures intellectuelles"
Chapter 10 "Les Foulses"
Chapter 11 "Les Yarses"
Chapter 12 "Les Samos"
Chapter 13 "Les Silmi-Mossis"
Chapter 14 "Les Peuls"
Appendices

Louis Tauxier's Le Noir du Yatenga is one of the best colonial-period ethnographies ever written. It was published in 1917 based on research Tauxier carried out as a colonial anthropologist from 1912-13 in West Africa. It is detailed, thorough, clearly written, fairly objective (for the period) and still helpful and informative for understanding this very important West African people. Mind you, it was written by a French colonial officer before WW I, when l'Afrique Occidentale Française was deep in the clutches of the French colonial Empire, and there are some racist bits, but it is generally very accurate, even ninety years later. In addition, it is one of the rarest books on African peoples ever published. There is only one copy in North America, and as far as I know, none at all in Burkina Faso.