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Mentaweian social organization
American anthropologist • 53 • Published In 1951 • Pages: 370-375
By: Wallace, Anthony F. C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this document Wallace critiques Warner Muensterberger's treatment of Mentaweian social organization and offers a reinterpretation of the basic structure of Mentaweian society. Some relatively minor criticisms are also leveled at the interpretations given to Mentaweian social organization by Loeb and Murdoch.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Regulation of marriage
- Residence
- Adoption
- Clans
- Community structure
- Illegitimacy
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mentawaians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- article
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- 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)
- North and South Pagai, Mentawei Islands, west of Sumatra, Indonesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Anthony F. C. Wallace
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 375)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mentawai (Indonesian people)