Book
Report on the Iban of Sarawak: Vol. 1: Iban social organization
Government Printing Office • Kuching, Sarawak • Published In 1955 • Pages:
By: Freeman, Derek.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Only the first volume of this work is included here. Volume 1 deals with Iban social organization, in particular with the Iban Bilek-family and the long house community. In addition to the physical type and location of the Iban community house structures, Freeman deals with recruitment to the house through birth, marriage, and adoption, the incorporation of new families into the community, the structure of authority and the pressures of social control which the community can wield over its members. The ritual unity of the long house is shown to be the principal bond among the members. Brief descriptions of the long house as a corporate entity, in political, economic and ritual activities, are also given.
- 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
- Book
- 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
- Leslie L. Clark
- 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
- Material on the bilek-family is indexed for Recreational Facilities (529) , Household (592), and the long-house is Community Structures (345).
- Volume 2, Agriculture, Land Usage and Land Tenure Among the Iban, is not included since it duplicates data in 1 and 6: Freeman
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ibans (Bornean people)