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On the taking of oaths among the Annamese
Institut Indochinois pour l'étude de l'Homme, Bulletins et Travaux pour 1942 • 5 (1) • Published In 1943 • Pages: 147-161 , plates
By: Nguyen, Văn Khoan, Greene, Liliane.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author, a native of Vietnam and an assistant at l'école Française d'Extreme-Orient, has given a detailed account of the ceremonial character of oath-taking among the Annamites. He describes occasions for oath taking, procedure involved, participants, etc. The material reported does not include professional oaths, legal oaths, or secret societies.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Social control
- Trial procedure
- Spirits and gods
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Organized ceremonial
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- 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
- Elinor Stewart ; 1952: John Beierle ; 2006
- 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
- 1936-1942
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern (BAC BO) Vietnam
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Nguyen-Van-Khoan
- Translation of: [De la prestation de serments chez les Annamites]
- Translated from the French for Human Relations Area Files by Liliane Greene
- Omitted: Photographs showing typical ceremonies and objects
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vietnamese