Book
The Burman: his life and notions
Macmillan and Co. • London • Published In 1910 • Pages:
By: Scott, James George.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This standard reference work discusses most aspects of Burmese life in considerable ethnographic detail. The author's career in the Burma Political Service began in the days before the last Anglo-Burmese War and spanned a good part of the time during which Burma was a British Indian Province. The data are most complete for ceremonial, political and generally exotic aspects of Burmese life-less adequate for the daily life of the ordinary citizen. However, actual behavior detail is always the rule. The author's tendency to see British rule as an overwhelming improvement in organized government and his tendency to treat chiefly the higher echelons of the old native government obscure his objectivity in dealing with Burmese native government. However, on the whole the book is remarkably free from bias, except in the chapters written during 1880-81.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural participation
- Cultural identity and pride
- Childbirth
- Ethnophysics
- Postnatal care
- Sorcery
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Status, role, and prestige
- Revelation and divination
- Sacred objects and places
- Education system
- Prophets and ascetics
- Theological systems
- Eschatology
- Organized ceremonial
- Poverty
- Magic
- Adulthood
- Body alterations
- Marriage
- Gender status
- Ethnopsychology
- Mythology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Burmans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- 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.
- Government Official
- 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
- F. K. Lehman; 1955 ; Teferi A. Adem; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1870s to 1909
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1870-1910
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Burma
- NotesAdditional notes
- Shway Yoe [pseud.]
- 'First edition ... 1882, second edition ... 1896, third edition ... 1910'
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 10012440
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Burmese
- Burma--Social life and customs