Book
Social status and power in Java
Athlone Press • (20) • Published In 1969 • Pages: 10, 171
By: Palmier, Leslie H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source contains information on power and status in Central Java. The author’s purpose was to investigate “…systems of status in Java and their relation to changes in the administrative and economic field”. Information is presented on the Javanese Regents; status and kinship among the Javanese nobility; regents and wives; maternal status, kinship, and appointments; poverty and honor; nobility and officials; Javanese-Chinese relationships; the Provisional Regional People’s Assembly; informal relationships among officials; the public recognition of status; and the transmission of power. The author concludes that systems of status have changed.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Classes
- Religious denominations
- Education system
- Status, role, and prestige
- Districts
- Ethnic stratification
- Towns
- Kin relationships
- Textile industries
- Administrative agencies
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Javanese
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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.
- 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
- Marlene Martin ; 1982
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1951-1954
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- central Java, Indonesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Leslie H. Palmier
- Revision of part of the authors thesis, University of London, 1956
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-168)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74473668
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Javanese (Indonesian people)/Social status--Indonesia--Java
- Java (Indonesia)--Social conditions