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Orokaiva warfare and production
Journal of the Polynesian Society • 92 (4) • Published In 1983 • Pages: 487-507
By: Newton, Janice.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article examines warfare '…in terms of the short and long term organisation of production of the precontact Orokaiva and considers elements of the current division of labour which are more readily understood in terms of the past. Work carried out in this area in relation to New Guinea highland ethnography suggests some possibilities for wider comparison. Several causal explanations of warfare are considered during the course of the paper and some criticisms are offered '(p. 487). The author's main purpose in this work, however, is to describe the operation of traditional warfare and its relation to other aspects of social life.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Comparative evidence
- Settlement patterns
- Status, role, and prestige
- Visiting and hospitality
- Inter-community relations
- Instigation of war
- Strategy
- Tactics
- Warfare
- 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
- article
- 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
- John Beierle ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1977-1979
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. late nineteenth century-1979
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Northern (Oro) Province, Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- Janice Newton
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 506-507)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 08012644
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Orokaiva (Papua New Guinea people)