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Sickness, death and burial among the Mongols of the Ordos Desert
Primitive man • 9 • Published In 1936 • Pages: 27-31
By: Kler, Joseph.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a very brief review of the sickness, death and burial beliefs and practices of the Ordos Mongols by a missionary observer who has been in close contact with the culture for a number of years.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Bodily injuries
- Life and death
- Burial practices and funerals
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Inner 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
- article
- 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
- Leslie L. Clark ; 1955
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1928-1936
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ih Juu, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Joseph Kler
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 99111903
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mongolia/Mongols--Ethnology