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Kapauku Papuan political structure
Systems of political control and bureaucracy in human societies • Seattle, Wash. • Published In 1958 • Pages: 9-22
By: Pospisil, Leopold J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a brief descriptive analysis of Kapauku political structure. Pospisil begins by giving a background summary of the Kapauku culture. He then describes the various groups in which an individual Kapauku is placed socially, from the nuclear family to the political confederacy. These groups can be organized by kin, common residence, or on other specified bases. Pospisil concludes with an analysis of the structure of authority and of the nature of law among the Kapauku.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Social relationships and groups
- Lineages
- Clans
- Community structure
- Territorial hierarchy
- Legal norms
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kapauku
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1954-1955
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1954-1955
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kamu Valley, central Highlands, Irian Jaya, Indonesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Leopold Pospisil
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sn84006589
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kapauku (New Guinea people)