book chapter
A seaman's narrative of his adventures during captivity among Chinese pirates on the coast of Cochin-China and afterwards during a journey on foot across that country in the years 1857-1858
Charles Westerton • London • Published In 1861 • Pages:
By: Brown, Edward.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is the account of a British seaman who was captured by Chinese pirates and of his escape off the coast of Cochin-China. He traveled through the country in the custody of the Cochin-Chinese for over a year. Brown was in a position to observe closely, and describes the people and their customs in great detail.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Location
- Flora
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Gestures and signs
- Tillage
- Gratification and control of hunger
- Cordage
- Normal garb
- External trade
- Travel
- Postures
- Status, role, and prestige
- Ethnic stratification
- Etiquette
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- Community heads
- External relations
- Prisons and jails
- Military installations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Vietnamese
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Traveler
- 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
- Katherine Schlesinger ; 1950; Teferi A. Adem ; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1857-1858
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1774-1858
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southern Vietnam
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Edward Brown
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vietnamese