essay
The community house of the Lamet
Compass for fields afar: essays in social anthropology, by Karl Gustav Izikowitz • Göteborg, Sweden • Published In 1985 • Pages: 139-189
By: Izikowitz, Karl Gustav.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Rmeet (Lamet) villages typically include a centrally located communal house in which all men—whether married adults, dependent elders, or young bachelors—are expected to spend a considerable part of their time when not farming. This essay describes the rhythm of daily life in men’s houses. The author raises questions about the origin of institutionalized physical segregation of men and women in Rmeet and other cultures with functionally similar community houses. A favored explanation links the evolution of communal houses not so much to cultural variations in gender-based division of labor as to the degree of public display in ceremonies related to village cults.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Settlement patterns
- Dwellings
- Public structures
- Outbuildings
- Tillage
- Annual cycle
- Division of labor by gender
- General character of religion
- Cult of the dead
- Organized ceremonial
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Sacred objects and places
- Avoidance and taboo
- Hunting and trapping
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Rmeet
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- May 1937-January 1938
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1937-1938
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Luang Namtha, Oudômxai, and Bokèo provinces, Laos
- NotesAdditional notes
- Karl Gustav Izikowitz
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86162478
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Lamet (Laotian people)