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Report of a survey of the inhabitants of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands during 1948-49
Bulletin of the department of anthropology • 1 • Published In 1953 • Pages: 1-7 , 7 plates
By: Guha, B. S. (Biraja Sankar).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a report of brief observations made in the course of an anthropological survey of the Andaman Islands. Perhaps the most valuable information provided are the scattered data on settlement patterns and the population composition of local groups. Evidently some extensive interviewing was conducted with available informants, and various biological data and field specimens were collected, but very little concrete information about these is included. No data are presented on the Nicobarese.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Descriptive somatology
- Dwellings
- Population
- Weapons
- Personal grooming
- Boats
- Composition of population
- Settlement patterns
- Ornament
- Tests and schedules administered in the field
- Marine hunting
- Recording and collecting in the field
- Normal garb
- Paraphernalia
- Locomotion
- Cultural participation
- Household
- Burden carrying
- Furniture
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Andamans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- 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.
- 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
- Robert O. Lagacé ; 1962
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1948-1949
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1779-1953
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Andaman Islands, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- B. S. Guha
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Andamanese (Indic people)