Book
Tiwi wives: a study of the women of Melville Island, North Australia
University of Washington Press • Seattle • Published In 1971 • Pages: xxiv, 368
By: Goodale, Jane C. (Jane Carter).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book discusses Tiwi social organization through the life cycles of individual men and women. It does this by providing detailed exposition of social groups, marriage arrangments, puverty rites and funeral ceremonies in which culturally expected duties and obligations of men and women come to live. The book views Tiwi culture and soceity as fluid and flexible.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Marriage
- Gender status
- Age stratification
- Polygamy
- Household
- Burial practices and funerals
- Puberty and initiation
- Conception
- Kin relationships
- Lineages
- Localized kin groups
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tiwi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Australia
- 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.
- 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.
- 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; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1953-1954, and 1962
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1914-1962
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Melville Island, Australia
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Jane C. Goodale
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-357)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 72117728
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Women, Tiwi (Australia) Tiwi (Australian people)--Social life and customs