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Tillage and collection: a New Guinea economy

Australian Medical Publishing CompanySydneyPublished In 1939 • Pages:

By: Hogbin, Herbert Ian.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article describes the three main economic activities of the Wogeo: fishing, fruit gathering and agriculture. The seasonal distribution of work and the intensity of labor are recorded in some detail. Other aspects of Wogeo economy such as the ordering of time, the storage and preparation of food, burden carrying, ownership of trees, and ceremonies connected with the accumulation and distribution of food are also discussed.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Collecting
Agriculture
Food preparation
Real property
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Wogeo
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
2014
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.
5: Excellent Primary Data
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
Robert Lee ; 1959
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1934
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1934
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Vokeo Island, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
NotesAdditional notes
By H. Ian Hogbin
Reprinted from OCEANIA, December 1938, Vol.9, no. 2 and March 1939, Vol. 9, no.3
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Vokeo Island (Papua New Guinea)