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Emergent structuralism: the design on an inquiry system to delineate the production and reduction of social forms
Choice and morality in anthropological perspective : essays in honor of Derek Freeman • Albany, N.y. • Published In 1988 • Pages: 43-60
By: Appell, George N..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is another theoretical treatment of the Rungus data (see Appell 1976, document no. 4). G.N. Appell examines the relationship between social structure and social action. Appell regards social structure as an 'opportunity structure,' because 'without structure there is no opportunity.' The problem lies in identifying a culture's opportunity structures. Appell finds opportunity strucutres in a culture's property system, which consists of a scarce good or service, the constellation of jural interests, and presence of a social isolate. Appell goes on to discuss the Rungus rights to trees and what he calls a 'tree-focussed isolate.'
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Arboriculture
- Real property
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Rungus Dusun
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1959-1963
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1959-1963
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kudat District, Sabah, Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- G. N. Appell
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 58-60)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87006534
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Dusun (Bornean people)