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Social organization of the Tawi-Tawi Badjaw
Ethnology • 4 (4) • Published In 1965 • Pages: 421-439
By: Nimmo, Harry.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a brief summary of salient aspects of Sama-Bajau social organization, focusing on culturally-expected reciprocal rights and obligations among members of households, kinship groups, and residential communities. The discussion emphasizes the effects of traditional boat-dwelling and migratory fishing practices, favoring the continuity of smaller nuclear families, a flexible residence pattern, and inter-household alliances across communities.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Settlement patterns
- Boats
- Dwellings
- Community structure
- Nuclear family
- Community heads
- Inter-community relations
- Family relationships
- Extended families
- Mutual aid
- Borrowing and lending
- Status and treatment of the aged
- Residence
- Annual cycle
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Sama-Bajau
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2020
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1963-1964
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1963-1964
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tawi-Tawi province, Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines
- NotesAdditional notes
- Harry Nimmo
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 438-439)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64005713
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bajau (Southeast Asian people)