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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Place names
- Reviews and critiques
- Population
- Arboriculture
- Diet
- Internal trade
- External trade
- Navigation
- Personal names
- Naming
- Marriage
- External relations
- Sorcery
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mourning
- Religious beliefs
- Missions
- Numeration
- Weights and measures
- Ordering of time
- Childbirth
- Infant care
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Nicobarese
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- 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
- 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
- Ian Skoggard; 2014
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1871-1901
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1871-1901
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nicobar Islands, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
- NotesAdditional 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)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ethnology--India--Nicobar Islands
- Nicobar Islands (India)--Description and travel