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Cultural changes in Kiriwina
Oceania • 16 • Published In 1945 • Pages: 15-60
By: Austen, Leo.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Leo Austen, a former Resident Magistrate of the territory of Papua, New Guinea, presents in this article a summary of Trobriand ethnography as he observed it on Kiriwina Island during the early 1930s (1931-1936). The material is written from the standpoint of on-going cultural change, and is frequently interspersed with Austen's speculations as to what should be done to help the native population in the future. The topics discussed in this document are: vital statistics (land use, population size, disease), chieftainship, wealth, Kula, death and religious beliefs, magic, gardening, law and order, games and dancing, and contact with Europeans (e.g., traders, missionaries, government officials, etc.).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Population
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Marine industries
- Vegetable production
- Gift giving
- Accumulation of wealth
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Community heads
- Chief executive
- Judicial authority
- Magic
- Magicians and diviners
- 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
- 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
- 1931-1936 [p. 16]
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1931-1936
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kiriwina Island, Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Leo Austen
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Trobriand Islanders