book chapter
Matsunagi: the life and social organization of a Japanese mountain community
University Microfilms International • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1953 • Pages:
By: Cornell, John B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The material contained in this source is supplemental to that contained in Cornell (1956). The source contains portions of Cornell's dissertation on the hamlet of Matsunagi which cover topics not included in Cornell (1956). The subjects covered are the life cycle, religion, basic economic and technical data, data on social organization, and a glossary. Cornell spent 10 months studying Matsunagi and his field methods included unstructured interviews and observation (p. viii).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Settlement patterns
- Infancy and childhood
- Socialization
- Elementary education
- Liberal arts education
- Marriage
- Organized ceremonial
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Cult of the dead
- General character of religion
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Okayama
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnographer
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Marlene Martin ; 1979 : John Beierle; 2010
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1950-1951
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950-1951
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Matsunagi buraku, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
- NotesAdditional notes
- John B. Cornell
- Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Michigan, 1953
- UM 00-05657
- Only pp. i-ii, i-xvii, 33, 71, 119, 120, 129, and 236-368 have been processed for the Okayama file
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Japan--Okayama Prefecture