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Social organization notes on the Northern Santa Cruz Islands: the Duff Islands (Taumako)
Baessler-Archiv; Beiträge zur Völkerkunde • Berlin • Published In 1968 • Pages: 137-205
By: Davenport, William H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article Davenport presents a descriptive ethnography of the people of the Duff Islands located in the northern Santa Cruz Island group. Although the author's particular emphasis in this work is on the socio-political organization of the islanders, especially in regard to the MATA or ward -- a grouping together of dwelling sites into named areas; the document does contain a wide variety of other ethnographic topics, such as settlement patterns, culture history, mythology, canoes and canoe construction, property and inheritance, kinship, trade, childhood and puberty rituals, marriage, reproduction, and the men's associations.
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Santa Cruz Islanders
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- 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 ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- March - April 1960
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- seventeenth century - 1960
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Duff Islands (Taumako), Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands
- NotesAdditional notes
- William Davenport
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 205)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sv 87024542
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Santa Cruz Islands (Solomon Islands)