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Affinity and the role of the father in the Trobriands
Southwestern journal of anthropology • 23 • Published In 1967 • Pages: 90-109
By: Sider, Karen Blu.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work begins with a brief survey of Trobriand society, is followed by a discussion of the major questions about matrilineal and affinal relationships and the role of the father, then Sider's own reanalysis of the data presented in the earlier works of Malinowski, Powell, Robinson, and others in terms of these questions.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Status, role, and prestige
- Family relationships
- Kin relationships
- Lineages
- Clans
- Community heads
- Ethnophysiology
- Conception
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- no date
- 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] Karen Blu Sider
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Trobriand Islanders