Book

The Nicobar Islands and their people

Printed and pub. For the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland by Billings and SonsGuildford, Eng. • Published In 1932 • Pages:

By: Man, Edward Horace, Prain, D. (David), Man, Amy Frances.

Abstract
This classic ethnography of the Nicobar Islands was written by the British government official, Edward Horace Mann, who conducted several tours of duty on the Nicobar Islands between 1871 and 1875, with additional trips in 1879, 1885, 1888, and 1894. Mann was also in charge of carrying out the 1901 census. The work covers a wide range of topics including demography, geography, somatology, native-foreigner interactions and relations, trade, medicine, kin terms, dress, emotional expressions, houses, pottery, bark cloth, canoes, reckoning of time and distance, calendrics, navigation, numeration and arithmetic, vocabulary and grammar, coconut trade, diet, childbirth and childcare, marriage, funerals and memorial ceremonies, religious beliefs, sorcery, and personal names and naming. The final chapter focuses on the Shompen people who inhabit the interior of Great Nicobar Island.
Subjects
Identification
Place names
Reviews and critiques
Population
Arboriculture
Diet
Internal trade
External trade
Navigation
Personal names
Naming
Marriage
External relations
Sorcery
Burial practices and funerals
Mourning
Religious beliefs
Missions
Numeration
Weights and measures
Ordering of time
Childbirth
Infant care
culture
Nicobarese
HRAF PubDate
2016
Region
Asia
Sub Region
South Asia
Document Type
Book
Evaluation
Creator Type
Government Official
Document Rating
5: Excellent Primary Data
Analyst
Ian Skoggard; 2014
Field Date
1871-1901
Coverage Date
1871-1901
Coverage Place
Nicobar Islands, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
Notes
Edward Horace Man ... compiled posthumously from papers in the R.A.I. Journal and the Indian antiquary, and from notes prepared for publication before his death; with a Memoir, contributed by Sir David Prain
"In ... [the author's] work he was for many years helped by his sister, who has here brought together the material in a new form, with some assistance in the matter of arrangement and revision."--p. v.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 184)
LCSH
Ethnology--India--Nicobar Islands
Nicobar Islands (India)--Description and travel