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Social organization notes on the Northern Santa Cruz Islands: the Main Reef Islands
Baessler-Archiv; Beiträge zur Völkerkunde • Berlin • Published In 1969 • Pages: 151-243
By: Davenport, William H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article by William Davenport presents a series of ethnographic notes on the inhabitants of the Reef Islands located in the northern Santa Cruz Island group. Of this cluster of small islands, the main emphasis is on the Main Reef Island group rather than the Outer Reef Islands of this chain. The latter will be discussed in a later publication by Davenport (see Davenport, 1972, document no. 12, in this file). Although social organization is emphasized, this work also contains information on geography of the Reef Islands, culture history, settlement patterns, men's associations, structures (both family dwellings and men's houses), concubinage, marriage (particularly in reference to bride price), kinship and kin groups, feasts, religion, maturation ceremonies, and many other features of Santa Cruz ethnography too numerous to list here.
- 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
- October 1958 - October 1960
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1595 - 1960
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Reef Islands, northern Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands
- NotesAdditional notes
- William Davenport
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-243)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sv 87024542
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Santa Cruz Islands (Solomon Islands)