book chapter
Human anatomical terms among the Aleutian Islanders
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By: Marsh, Gordon H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author was the linguist on the Harvard Peabody Museum Aleutian Expedition of 1949. This excellent paper on Aleut knowledge of human anatomy includes a discussion of the sources of this knowledge and lists of Aleut anatomical terms. These lists are not included.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Vocabulary
- Science
- Burial practices and funerals
- Ethnoanatomy
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aleut
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2007
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Linguist
- 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
- Leila S. Small ; 1950-1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1949
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1825-1950
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Gordon H. Marsh
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aleuts