essay
The family system of the Iban of Borneo
developmental cycle in domestic groups • (1) • Published In 1958 • Pages: 15-52
By: Freeman, Derek.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper concerns the BILEK family among the Iban. Material is given on the composition of the group, the principles of recruitment into it, and the means by which partition of one BILEK family into two occurs.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Household
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Iban
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- 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
- essay
- 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
- James Leary
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1949-1951
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sarawak, Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- J. D. Freeman
- Data on the BILEK family have been indexed for Household (592)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ibans (Bornean people)