Book

The Nicobar Islands and their people

Printed and pub. For the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland by Billings and Sons • Guildford, Eng. • Published In 1932 • Pages:

By: Man, Edward Horace, Prain, D. (David), Man, Amy Frances.

Abstract

This classic ethnography of the Nicobar Islands was written by the British government official, Edward Horace Mann, who conducted several tours of duty on the Nicobar Islands between 1871 and 1875, with additional trips in 1879, 1885, 1888, and 1894. Mann was also in charge of carrying out the 1901 census. The work covers a wide range of topics including demography, geography, somatology, native-foreigner interactions and relations, trade, medicine, kin terms, dress, emotional expressions, houses, pottery, bark cloth, canoes, reckoning of time and distance, calendrics, navigation, numeration and arithmetic, vocabulary and grammar, coconut trade, diet, childbirth and childcare, marriage, funerals and memorial ceremonies, religious beliefs, sorcery, and personal names and naming. The final chapter focuses on the Shompen people who inhabit the interior of Great Nicobar Island.

HRAF PubDate

2016

Region

Asia

Sub Region

South Asia

Document Type

Book

Evaluation

Creator Type

Government Official

Document Rating

5: Excellent Primary Data

Analyst

Ian Skoggard; 2014

Field Date

1871-1901

Coverage Date

1871-1901

Coverage Place

Nicobar Islands, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

Notes

Edward Horace Man ... compiled posthumously from papers in the R.A.I. Journal and the Indian antiquary, and from notes prepared for publication before his death; with a Memoir, contributed by Sir David Prain

"In ... [the author's] work he was for many years helped by his sister, who has here brought together the material in a new form, with some assistance in the matter of arrangement and revision."--p. v.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 184)

LCSH

Ethnology--India--Nicobar Islands

Nicobar Islands (India)--Description and travel