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The Burusho of Hunza
Antiquity • 12 • Published In 1938 • Pages: 5-15
By: Lorimer, E. O. (Emily Overend).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This short article by the wife of the British Political Agent in Gilgit for the years 1920-1924 discusses very briefly the life of the Burusho of Hunza. The emphasis is on agricultural methods, crops, and the problem of an adequate food supply, but mention is made also of their buildings, tools, water channels, and utensils.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ethos
- Linguistic identification
- Pastoral activities
- Tillage
- Cereal agriculture
- Arboriculture
- Diet
- Alcoholic beverages
- Mats and basketry
- Woodworking
- Heating and lighting equipment
- Settlement patterns
- Industrial machinery
- General character of religion
- General character of religion
- Status and treatment of the aged
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Burusho
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Traveler
- 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.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Alice McCloskey ; 1955
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1920-1924; 1934-1935
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1892-1934
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Hunza, Pakistan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Emily Overend Lorimer
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 29021740
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Burusho