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Melanesian middlemen
Natural history • 30 • Published In 1930 • Pages: 115-130
By: Mead, Margaret.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source deals mainly with the trade relations of the Manus and neighboring Usiai and Matankor peoples. Also discussed are: the articles traded, the place of money (i.e., shell money and dogs' teeth) and barter in exchange transactions, and the influence of ceremonial payments between families upon trade.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural participation
- Dwellings
- Settlement patterns
- Borrowing and lending
- Gift giving
- Medium of exchange
- Exchange transactions
- Internal trade
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Manus
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- 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
- Joan Steffens ; 1963
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1928-1929
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1928-1929
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Admiralty Islands, Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- Margaret Mead
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 20020046
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Manus (Papua New Guinea people)