Book
The Mayawyaw ritual: parts 1-5
Catholic Anthropological Conference • 4 (1-5) • Published In 1941 • Pages: 4, 754
By: Lambrecht, Francis.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is divided into five parts as follows: Part I (pp. 1-167), Rice Culture and Rice Ritual; Part II (pp. 169-325), Marriage and Marriage Ritual; Part III (pp. 327-493), Death and Death Ritual; Part IV (pp. 495-711), Property and Property Ritual; Part V (pp. 713-754) Go-Betweens and Priests. The work is a description of Mayawyaw religion, including native texts of prayers, invocations, magical tales, ritual songs, and other ritual forumlae. Contextual data of general ethnographic interest if furnished in all five sections: a description of rice culture; information on the family and kinship; materials on death, death concepts, illness, headhunting and warfare, and social control; a treatment of the property system, legal system, land tenure system, and a description of exchange transactions and property disputes. Many case histories are given and much illustrative material is provided.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Cereal agriculture
- Dwellings
- Property
- Buying and selling
- Art
- Marriage
- Local officials
- Offenses and sanctions
- Warfare
- Aftermath of combat
- Death
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Magic
- Priesthood
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ifugao
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Missionary
- 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
- W. W. Stein ; 1956-1975
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1924- ca. 1940
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1924-ca.1940
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mayawyaw valley, Ifugaw province, northern Luzon, Philippines
- NotesAdditional notes
- F. Lambrecht
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ifugao (Philippine people)