Book
Economic geography of a north Burma Kachin village
[s.n.] • [new York] • Published In 1954 • Pages:
By: Huke, Robert E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a short report of the author's field work in a Kachin village in 1952. It was first read at the meetings of the Far Eastern Association, New York, April, 1954. In order, there are presented data on the geographical setting, settlement pattern, house types and land use, agricultural crops, techniques, cycles, and rituals, the productivity of agriculture, the place of agriculture, jungle products, hunting and fishing in the economy and the state of the whole economy, the place of money and trade in the economy. There are incidental data on diet, clothing, the use of alcohol and opium. The author maintains that this is a poor economy, owing to inefficient land use. The author was on the faculty of the Department of Geography, Dartmouth College.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Tillage
- Cereal agriculture
- Land use
- Topography and geology
- Climate
- Dwellings
- Revelation and divination
- Ethnogeography
- Labor supply and employment
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Cooperative organization
- Outbuildings
- Burden carrying
- Production and supply
- Ordering of time
- Community councils
- Ethnozoology
- Normal garb
- Collecting
- Fishing
- Diet
- Woven and other interworked fabrics
- Taxation and public income
- Visiting and hospitality
- Standard of living
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kachin
- 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.
- Geographer
- 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
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1952
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1952-1954
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kachin State, Burma
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert E. Huke
- Presented at the meetings of the Far Eastern Association, New York City, April 13-14, 1954; mimeographed
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 55027502
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kachin State (Burma)--Economic conditions