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The Mayawyaw ritual: parts 1-5

Catholic Anthropological Conference4 (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)