Book
The Tanala, a hill tribe of Madagascar
[s.n.] • xxii • Published In 1933 • Pages: 334
By: Linton, Ralph.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work was planned as the first of a series on Madagascar field research, sponsored by the Field Museum as an extension of its interest in Malayan ethnology. Although the author was only two months among the Tanala themselves, he spent about one year and a half traveling throughout Madagascar, and as a result presents data on various other tribes of the island in comparison with that on the Tanala. The work is presented as a standard ethnography, with sections on tribal identification, economy, social organization, government, religion, warfare, amusement, art, life cycle, folklore, and a brief history of tribal wars.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural identity and pride
- Ethos
- Settlement patterns
- Dwellings
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Community councils
- Territorial hierarchy
- Form and rules of government
- Visual arts
- General character of religion
- Spirits and gods
- Eschatology
- Cult of the dead
- History
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tanala
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Africa
- 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.
- 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
- Richard Schaedel ; 1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1926-27
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1800-1927
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Madagascar
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Ralph Linton … Marshall Field expedition to Madagascar, 1926
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 33013312
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Captain Marshall Field expedition to Madagascar, 1926-1927/Tanala (Malagasy people)/Ethnology--Madagascar