book chapter
History of a voyage to the China Sea
Wells and Lilly • Boston, 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