essay
The Tobelo of Eastern Halmahera in the context of the field of anthropological study
Unity in diversity : Indonesia as a field of anthropological study • Dordrecht, Holland • Published In 1984 • Pages: 167-189
By: Platenkamp, Jos. D. M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work shows that Tobelo social organization lacked clearly-defined unilineal kinship groups, living instead in village communities consisting of a group of co-resident cognatic relatives. Members of each residential cognatic unit jointly owned and cultivated a garden. Similarly, the village community as a whole organized communal worship and participated in other ceremonies, including marriage and funerary rituals. The author notes the implications for anthropological theories of kinship and regional comparisons of eastern Indonesian cultures.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Regulation of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Kinship terminology
- Kin relationships
- Kindreds and ramages
- Lineages
- Bilineal kin groups
- Community structure
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tobelo
- 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.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2021
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1979-1980, 1982
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1885-1982
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- North Halmahera Regency, North Maluku, Indonesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- J. D. M. Platenkamp
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-189)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 85152328
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tobelo (Indonesian people)