Book
The Lolo of Liang-shan
The Commercial Press • Shanghai, China • Published In 1947 • Pages:
By: Lin, Yaohua, Pan, Ju Shu.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a general account of the Lolo by a renown Chinese anthropologist. The author describes class organization, economic activities and labor division, marriage and kinship systems, political organization and religious beliefs. A considerable portion of the book is devoted to clan feuds, slave raids, and warfare. The book is based on fieldwork undertaken by the author.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Slavery
- Regulation of marriage
- Kinship terminology
- Clans
- Community structure
- Inter-community relations
- Territorial hierarchy
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yi
- 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
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- Betty Potash; 1960 ; Ian Skoggard; 2010
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1943
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1943
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Liang Shan, Sichuan Province, China
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Yueh-hwa Lin ; translated by Ju Shu Pan
- Translation of: Liang-shan Yi jia
- The original Chinese text is available in paper and fiche collections but is not indexed for subjects
- Translated from the Chinese for the Human Relations Area Files by Ju Shu Pan
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- c 67001358
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yi (Chinese people)/Ethnology--China