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People in the middle: the Rhade of South Viet Nam

Michigan State UniversityEast Lansing, Mich.Published In 1962 • Pages:

By: Donoghue, John D., Whitney, Daniel D., Ishino, Iwao.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Fieldwork for this study coincided with fierce competition between the North Vietnamese-supported Viet Cong insurgents and the United States-backed Republic of Vietnam to win the support of the Rhade. The principal goal of the study was to assist the joint United States–South Vietnamese effort by providing a comprehensive description of the social organization, administrative structure, kinship system, economic organization, and belief system of the Rhade. The results emphasized the persistence of slash-and-burn cultivation as the mainstay of the Rhade economy, and the centrality of women’s roles in descent reckoning, spouse selection, and property inheritance.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Identification
Acculturation and culture contact
Public opinion
Tillage
Cereal agriculture
Dwellings
Real property
Marriage
Clans
Community structure
Community heads
Territorial hierarchy
Public welfare
Wartime adjustments
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Rhade
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
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Ethnologist
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 ; 2016
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1961-1962
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1956-1962
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Buôn Kô Sir (Ko-Sier), Đắk Lắk (Darlac), Vietnam
NotesAdditional notes
John D. Donoghue ; Daniel D. Whitney ; Iwao Ishino
Includes bibliographical references (p. 111)
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Rhade (Vietnamese people)