Book
The people of Alor: a social-psychological study of an East Indian Island
Univ. of Minnesota Press • Minneapolis • Published In 1944 • Pages:
By: Du Bois, Cora Alice, Kardiner, Abram, Oberholzer, Emil.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the basic personality structure of the Alorese and of the factors, particularly those concerned with child rearing, which bring about the development of Alorese personality traits. While some ethnographic materials are included particularly in areas concerning food getting, exchange transactions, funerals and mortuary feasts, concepts of disease and relationships to the supernatural, marriage and social relations, these are discussed primarily in relation to problems of personality formation. There is no attempt at a comprehensive coverage of Alorese culture. The monograph is particularly rich in biographical materials. The life histories of eight individuals are given by the author and these are analyzed by Abraham Kardiner, a psychoanalyst. Also included are the results of several different personality and intellegence tests with Rorschach analyses by Emil Oberholzer. The author, an ethnologist, did field work in the area.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Behavior processes and personality
- Accumulation of wealth
- Mode of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Family relationships
- Infancy and childhood
- Socialization
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Alorese
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- 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
- Betty Potash ; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1961
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1938-1939
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Atimelang village, Alor Island, Nusa Tenggara Timur Province, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Cora Du Bois. With analyses by Abram Kardiner and Emil Oberholzer
- Includes index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 44002386
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Alor (Indonesia)