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Hygiene and medical practices among the Onge (Little Andaman)
Anthropos • 56 • Published In 1961 • Pages: 481-500 , 8 plates
By: Cipriani, Lidio.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study of the hygiene and medical practices among the Onge is based on Cipriani's participant observations in 1951-53. Hygienic conditions related to habitation, clothing, food and personal care are discussed and information is presented on illnesses and cures.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Eating
- Morbidity
- Preventive medicine
- Diet
- Personal hygiene
- Fauna
- Comparative evidence
- Bodily injuries
- Physiological data
- Medical therapy
- Domesticated animals
- General tools
- Personal grooming
- Ethnozoology
- Water and thirst
- Food preparation
- Dwellings
- 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
- Hesung C. Koh ; 1962
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1951-1953
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1951-1953
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Onge, Andaman Islands, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- Lidio Cipriani
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Andamanese (Indic people)