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Usituma!: song of heaven
Oceania • 15 • Published In 1945 • Pages: 201-238
By: Baldwin, B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Native song texts make up most of this article. The following themes are treated in these songs: religion and afterlife; wealth and chieftainship; dancing, courtship and love; canoes and voyaging; fighting, death and exile. Copious notes supplement the texts. Baldwin, a missionary, had six years' field experience in the Trobriands at the time the article was published.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Music
- Literary texts
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Trobriands
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- 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.
- Missionary
- 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
- Arthur Fields
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1939-1945
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] B. Baldwin
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Trobriand Islanders