Book
Birth and childhood among the Arabs: studies in a Muhammadan village in Palestine
Söderström and Co. • Helsingfors, Finland • Published In 1947 • Pages:
By: Granqvist, Hilma Natalia.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This volume is the first of two concerning the Arab child. It is the sequence of two of the author's earlier works on Arab marriage conditions. Field work was done in an Arab village in the former Palestine between 1925 and 1931. The purpose of the book is a sociological study of the child. The author points out that the impact of westernization upon Middle Eastern culture, and the resulting culture change is of great interest to social scientists. Proper guidance and information is needed to assist this changing of Middle Eastern culture. Following the functionalist school, the author feels that in order to do this, all aspects of social life must be investigated, considering their relation to one another, and that an essential part of this is the investigation of how the individual is moulded or adjusted to social life. Pre-natal customs, birth, post-natal customs, mother-child relationships, work and play, education and character, and circumcision are discussed. Pages 213 to 288 contain notes to the text with comments and references to recent and biblical peoples.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Personality development
- Dissemination of news and information
- Body alterations
- Gift giving
- Games
- Literary texts
- Gender status
- Magic
- Sexual intercourse
- Reproduction
- Ceremonial during infancy and childhood
- Infant feeding
- Development and maturation
- Techniques of socialization
- Transmission of skills
- Transmission of cultural norms
- Education system
- Elementary education
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Palestinians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- 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
- Stanley A. Fishler ; 1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1925-31
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1925-1931
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Village of Artās, Israel
- NotesAdditional notes
- Hilma Granqvist
- For bibliographical references see document 17: Granqvist
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 48023783
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Palestinian Arabs