Book
Housekeeping among Malay peasants
London School of Economics and Political Science • London • Published In 1943 • Pages: viii, 198 , plates
By: Firth, Rosemary.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Rosemary Firth spent eight months in a small fishing village in Kelantan. While her husband investigated the production and distribution of wealth (see No. 4, Firth), she studied the ways in which this wealth was used. The report concentrates on women and their activities, as housekeepers, wives, mothers and wage-earners. (The appendix includes a case history of economic and social relations in a polygamous establishment, showing the jealousy of the older for the younger wife, aggravated by difficulties about the division of income.) The data on household budgets were collected by personal interview from 10 families over periods ranging from 4 to 21 weeks. (Individual family weekly expenditures are included in the appendix.) The types of markets, the products on sale and the methods and amount bought by the individual consumer are included in the study. Ceremonial obligations and the financing and preparation of the feasts are described. The appendix includes a section on cooking and recipes.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Settlement patterns
- Standard of living
- Fishing
- Income and demand
- Composition of population
- Household
- Division of labor by gender
- Gender status
- Gender roles and issues
- Eating
- Termination of marriage
- Diet
- Food preparation
- Polygamy
- Secondary marriages
- Mutual aid
- Borrowing and lending
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Malays
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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
- B. P. Emerson ; 1955
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1939-1940
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1939-1943
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Small fishing vlilage in Kelantan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Rosemary Firth
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 43007850
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Home economics--Kelantan
- Kelantan--Social life and customs