Book
The Monguors of the Kansu-Tibetan frontier: their origin, history and social organization
American Philosophical Society • 44 (1) • Published In 1954 • Pages: 138
By: Schram, Louis, Lattimore, Owen.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study concentrates on the clan and family life of the Monguor who live just east of Kokonor, on the Kansu-Chinghai boundary. Special attention is given to the effects of Chinese indirect rule upon Monguor social organization; i.e., the transformation of the clan chief into the T'u-ssu and the resulting changes in land tenure and local government. There is much description of acculturation between Monguor, Chinese, and Tibetan. An introduction by Owen Lattimore (pp. 4-17) summarizes the book. Two maps locate precisely the people described by Father Schram.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Location
- Historical reconstruction
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Avuncular and nepotic relatives
- Localized kin groups
- Community structure
- Taxation and public income
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Monguor
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- 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.
- Missionary
- 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
- Arthur Fields ; 1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1911-1922
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1271-1922
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Xining Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Louis M.J. Schram ; introduction by Owen Lattimore
- Schram lived in Xining (Hsining) district, or prefecture, in western Gansu (Kansu) Province, a region known as Kokonor. After he left, Xining became the capital of the new province of Qinghai (Chinghai). The Monguor territory was centered on Xining, if not strictly congruent with the prefecture, and included land along the Qinghai-Gansu border. For specificity sake, I limited the place coverage designation to Xining Prefecture, Qinghai Province. Schram bases his study on his ethnographic fieldwork (1911-1921) and historical records from the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1912) Dynasties, the former includes references from the Mongol period (1271-1368). (Notes added by Ian Skoggard, 2004)
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 54006120
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mongour (Chinese people)