Book

Mongol community and kinship structure

Greenwood PressWestport, Conn.Published In 1973 • Pages:

By: Vreeland, Herbert Harold.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of Mongolian kinship structure based on interviews with informants living in the United States. Vreeland examines the social, political, economic and religious organization in the home communities of informant's from three Mongolian tribes: the Khalkha in western Mongolia, Chahar in Inner Mongolia, China, and the Dagor along the Nen Jiang (river), which divides Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia, China. Vreeland accounts for their simlarities and differences; similarities in terms of a common ancestral stock and differences in terms of varying influences from the Chinese-Manchu state and Lamaism. Vreeland argues for a common origin of kinship structure and through careful analysis of kinshhip terminology attempts to reconstruct a prototype kinship system and account for subsequent transformations.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Household
Kinship terminology
Kindreds and ramages
Kindreds and ramages
Lineages
Clans
Districts
Provinces
Taxation and public income
Prophets and ascetics
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Mongolia
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
2006
RegionThe area the document pertains to
Asia
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Central 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.
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
Ian Skoggard ; 2005
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1949-1952
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1000-1950
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Mongolia and Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang, China
NotesAdditional notes
[by] Herbert Harold Vreeland, III
Original ed. issued in series: Behavior science monographs
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327)
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
72012334
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Mongolia