essay
The self and the product: concepts of work in comparative perspective
Social anthropology of work • London • Published In 1979 • Pages: 287-315
By: Schwimmer, Eric G..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is primarily a consideration of cross-cultural comparisons of the concept of 'work' the author illustrates his theoretical points with some data from his research on Orokaiva. He attempts to demonstrate that Orokaiva differentiate among several types of 'work' according to the ultimate disposition of the 'value' realized from each type, and that among pre-contact Orokaiva 'work' was a religious, not an economic category.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Labor and leisure
- Tillage
- Individual enterprise
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Exchange transactions
- Medium of exchange
- Mutual aid
- Status, role, and prestige
- 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.
- 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
- David Sherwood ; 1984
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1966-1970
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1966-1970
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Popondetta Sub-District of the Northern District of Papua; Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Erik Schwimmer
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-315)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 79041277
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Orokaiva (Papua New Guinea people)