Book
Culture and inference: a Trobriand case study
Harvard University Press • Cambridge, Mass. • Published In 1980 • Pages: [xi], 143
By: Hutchins, Edwin.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this work Hutchins explores the nature of reasoning in a 'primitive' society (i.e., the Trobriand Islands), by employing a form of cognitive theory that has been developed during the past twenty years. This theory is applied to public litigation in the Trobriands. Information on land tenure, the village court system, and litigation procedures are presented in this monograph.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Informal in-group justice
- Litigation
- Real property
- Gift giving
- 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
- 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
- John Beierle
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- July 1975-Sept. 1976 [p.viii]
- 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] Edwin Hutchins
- Bibliography: p. [135]-137
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80013280
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Trobriand Islanders/Cognition and culture/Land tenure (Primitive law)/Logical jurisprudence