Book
Notes on the ethnology of Tibet
Smithsonian Institution • Washington, D.c. • Published In 1895 • Pages: 665-747 , plates
By: Rockhill, William Woodville.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book deals with all aspects of Tibetan life, but relies heavily on other sources to supplement the author's own experience. Its main value lies in its description of Tibetan material culture, especially the description and the illustration of numerous artifacts in the Tibetan collection of the Smithsonian Institution.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tibetans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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.
- 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.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Samuel Chu ; 1955
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1888-1892
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tibet
- NotesAdditional notes
- By William Woodville Rockhill
- Some scattered information on West Tibet, Sikkim, Nepal, etc. is included in the book but has not been indexed for other than the Tibet file
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 14019798
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ethnology--China--Tibet Autonomous Region