book chapter
The northern Massim
Melanesians of British New Guinea, by C. G. Seligmann • Cambridge, U.k. • Published In 1910 • Pages: 660-735
By: Seligman, C. G. (Charles Gabriel).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an early study covering not only the Trobriand Islands but also the Marshall Bennets, and Murua (Woodlark Island) with its annexes of the Laughlans, Alcesters, and Egum atoll. Seligman provides data on geography and social relations, clans and totems, chieftainship, family life, youth and adolescence, courtship and marriage, burial and mourning ceremonies, and religion.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Settlement patterns
- Status, role, and prestige
- Clans
- Community heads
- Territorial hierarchy
- Chief executive
- Warfare
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mourning
- Magic
- 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 chapter
- 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
- 1898, 1904 [p. v.]
- 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] C. G. Seligmann
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Trobriand Islanders