Book
Studies of Okinawan village life
Pacific Science Board, National Research Council • Washington D.c. • Published In 1953 • Pages: [ia-e] ii, 382
By: Glacken, Clarence J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is based primarily upon six months of field work in three sample villages chosen as examples of the primary types of economies -- agriculture, fishing, stonecutting, and forestry. The description is comprehensive and detailed. In addition to the focus on person-land relationships, there is very detailed information on topics such as economic organization, kinship (including kinship terminology), marriage, family life, socialization patterns, formal education, religion, festivals, funerals and mourning, and the community. There is a lenghty discussion of what is called the 'family system,' which includes the entire network of kin groups. The structuring of the patrilineal kin groups remains ambiguous, although it may be suggested that they seem to constitute a segmentary lineage system.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Composition of population
- History
- Fishing
- Tillage
- Land use
- Lumbering
- Mining and quarrying
- Lithic industries
- Dwellings
- Real property
- Inheritance
- Nuptials
- Family
- Kinship terminology
- Kin relationships
- Community structure
- External relations
- Burial practices and funerals
- Organized ceremonial
- Education system
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Okinawans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Geographer
- 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
- Robert O. Lagacé ; 1962
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1951-1952
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- prehistory -1952
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- villages of Hanashiro, Minatogawa, and Matsuda, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, Japan
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Clarence J. Glacken
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Okinawa