book chapter

History of a voyage to the China Sea

Wells and LillyBoston, Mass.Published In 1823 • Pages:

By: White, John.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
White, an officer in the U.S. Navy, visited Indochina, the Dutch East Indies and the Philippine Islands for a period of 20 months in the years 1819-1820. Some good descriptions of the Vietnamese and especially Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City)and its inhabitants are given. It is a travel narrative, and as such, only selected excerpts have been included
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
History
Public structures
External trade
Retail marketing
Boats
Personal hygiene
Classes
Chief executive
Executive household
Taxation and public income
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
Elden Johnson ; 1951: John Beierle ; 2006
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1819-1820
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1819-1820
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Ho Chi Minh City, southern (NAM BO) Vietnam
NotesAdditional notes
[by] John White
This document consists of excerpts
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Vietnamese