Book
Cultural consequences of a volcanic eruption experienced by the Mount Lamington Orokaiva
Dept. of Anthropology, University of Oregon • (9) • Published In 1969 • Pages: vii, 228, [26], 8
By: Schwimmer, Eric G..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source examines the effect of collective evacuation and resettlement upon an Orokaiva community, Sivepe, following the 1951 eruption of the Mount Lamington volcano. The author explores the various socio-cultural consequences of the eruption and its aftermath on Sivepe, and contrasts the situation there with that of Inonda, a second Orokaiva community unaffected by the disaster. This study forms part of a comparative study of ten displaced communities in the Pacific, which has as its goal the investigation of the hypothesis that displacement leads to accelerated cultural change.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Disasters
- Topography and geology
- Public welfare
- Community councils
- Settlement patterns
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Missions
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Internal migration
- External migration
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- David Sherwood ; 1984
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1966-1967
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1951-1967
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- villages of Inonda and Sivepe; Mount Lamington area; Popondetta Sub-District; Northern Papua; Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Eric G. Schwimmer
- At head of title: A comparative study of cultural change and stability in displaced communities in the Pacific
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-204)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 72630929
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Orokaiva (Papua New Guinea people)