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How they pay their debts
Asia • 40 • Published In 1940 • Pages: 482-486
By: Du Bois, Cora Alice.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is concerned with financial and exchange transactions among the Alor. The author describes the major activities for which wealth is expended including funerals, marriages and the building of lineage houses. Most of this material appears also in her book 'The People of Alor' where the descriptions are somewhat more detailed.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Renting and leasing
- 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
- 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
- Betty Potash ; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1938-1939
- 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
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Alor (Indonesia)