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Territory, hierarchy and kinship in Kiriwina
Man • 4 (4) • Published In 1969 • Pages: 580-604
By: Powell, Harry A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In a previous article on Kiriwinan kinship (54: Powell) the author argued the relevance of a distinction between ontogenetic and phylogenetic dimensions of kinship relations. Based on this distinction Powell criticizes the interpretation of Trobriand kinship and marriage made by both Lounsbury (1965) and Leach (1958) and presents in this work his own model of the system. This model combines elements of both the ontogenetic and phylogenetic dimensions and attempts to define kinship in terms of social interaction, taking over in the process kinship terminology to designate an etiologically distinct set of institutionalized behavior.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Gift giving
- Status, role, and prestige
- Kinship terminology
- Kin relationships
- Lineages
- Clans
- 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.
- 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
- ca. 1950-1960
- 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)
- Omarakana village, Kiriwina Island, Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Harry A. Powell
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sf 80000548
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Trobriand Islanders