Book
Cultivators in the swamp: social structure and horticulture in a New Guinea society (Frederik-Hendrik Island, West New Guinea)
Van Gorcum • Assen • Published In 1965 • Pages: xii, 308
By: Serpenti, L. M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book describes salient features of Kimam culture and society, with particular focus on food production, marriage rules, exchange practices, and life-cycles. The emphasis is on how living on a swampy island where much of the land is never completely dry, even during the dry season, affects many aspects of community life. Because suitable patches of higher ground may be separated by vast swamps, each village is autonomous and is divided into two segments operating as partners for exchanging women, food, labor, and additional culturally-defined rights and responsibilities. Economically, each household builds up their own gardens in the surrounding swamp using grass and mud, making them objects not just of intensive labor investment by men but also elaborate community rituals of protection and revitalization.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Topography and geology
- Settlement patterns
- Community structure
- Inter-community relations
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Organized ceremonial
- Magic
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Division of labor by gender
- Vegetable production
- Arboriculture
- Diet
- Family relationships
- Real property
- Soil
- Environmental quality
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kimam
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1960-1962
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1960-1962
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Bamol, Yos Sudarso (Frederik-Hendrik) Island, Papua, Indonesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- L. M. Serpenti
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-308)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 65029352
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ethnology--Frederik Hendrik Island
- Horticulture--Frederik Hendrik Island