essay
Twelve Orokaiva traders
Papuan entrepreneurs • (16) • Published In 1967 • Pages: 23-39
By: Oostermeyer, W. J., Gray, Joanne.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a study of twelve Orokaiva entrepreneurs engaged in retail trading with varying degrees of success. The authors examine a number of social and economic variables with respect to each trader, such as education, travel experience, and loans received, in an attempt to explain the varying entrepreneurial success of the individuals in their sample.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Individual enterprise
- Occupational specialization
- Retail businesses
- Cooperative organization
- Real property
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Orokaiva
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Melanesia
- 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.
- Unknown
- 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
- David Sherwood ; 1984
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1965-1966
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1965-1966
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Popondetta Sub-District, Northern District, Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- by W. J. Oostermeyer and J. Gray
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 39)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 68115518
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Orokaiva (Papua New Guinea people)