Book
Politics of the kula ring: an analysis of the findings of Bronislaw Malinowski
Manchester University Press • Manchester, U.k. • Published In 1971 • Pages:
By: Uberoi, J. P. Singh.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this work, Uberoi reinterprets data on the Kula collected by Bronislaw Malinowski in the Trobriand Islands from 1914 through 1918. Uberoi has been influenced by the British school of social anthropology. This is demonstrated in his reanalysis of Malinowski's data on political institutions and kinship. The major portion of this monograph deals with various aspects of the Kula ring and exchange system and there is also information on the political divisions of the Trobriand Islands, village structure, kin groups, marriage, gift exchange (outside the Kula), rank, and chieftainship. Chapter 3, dealing exclusively with the Dobu has not been indexed nor have general data on the Melanesians as a whole.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gift giving
- Accumulation of wealth
- Territorial hierarchy
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Exchange transactions
- Clans
- Lineages
- Community heads
- Status, role, and prestige
- Family relationships
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specifed
- 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] J.P. Singh Uberoi
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Trobriand Islanders