Book
A Solomon Island society: kinship and leadership among the Siuai of Bougainville
Harvard University Press • Cambridge • Published In 1955 • Pages:
By: Oliver, Douglas L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This fundamental ethnography of the Siwai provides a comprehensive account of the culture in order to frame traditional authority and the actions of leaders. Specific themes covered include the environment, settlement patterns, subsistence practices, property system, land use, cosmology, myths, social organization, values, the life cycle, and ceremonial practices. It is shown how an ambitious man can manipulate complicated exchanges in resources, especially pigs, in order to host a "social-climbing" feast in which the prime objective is to humiliate a rival and gain renown.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Domesticated animals
- Vegetable production
- Normal garb
- Settlement patterns
- Mutual aid
- Music
- Accumulation of wealth
- Visiting and hospitality
- Mode of marriage
- Household
- Kin relationships
- Lineages
- Clans
- Mythology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Siwai
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- 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
- Book
- 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
- Ian Skoggard; 2014
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1938-1939
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1938-1939
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Southern Bougainville, North Solomons Province, Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- Douglas L. Oliver
- Includes bibliographical references in "Notes" (p. 489-527)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 54009776
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Siuai (Papuan people)
- Leadership