book chapter
Northwards
Wisdom and waste in the Punjab village • • Published In 1934 • Pages: 1-76
By: Darling, Malcolm.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a travelogue-style account of a British colonial administrator's tour and inspection of village life in the northern portion of what is now Punjab Province. Topics covered include the price of wheat, the costs of marriage, ascetics and their magical spells, co-operative societies, water-logged fields, land-revenue fees, moneylending, and litigation.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Topography and geology
- Tillage
- Ornament
- Borrowing and lending
- Income and demand
- Mutual aid
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Ethnosociology
- Education system
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- West Punjabi
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- 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
- Helen Takacs; 1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- December 1930
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1930
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern Punjab Province, Pakistan
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Malcolm Lyall Darling
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 35005788
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Peasantry--Punjab
- Usury--Punjab
- Punjab (Pakistan)--Social life and customs
- Punjab (Pakistan)--Social life and customs