essay
Human relations and language in a Papuan-speaking tribe of southern Bougainville, Solomon Islands: an essay on methodology
Studies in the anthropology of Bougainville, Solomon Islands • 29 (2) • Published In 1949 • Pages: 38
By: Oliver, Douglas L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study discusses the political organization of the Siwai, beginning with a semantic analysis finding three distinct meanings of the word for a Siwai big man. One is a respectful form of address for elders within one's kin group. A second refers to people who have wealth in one or all of its various forms: land, crops, pigs, shell money, and ownership of a men's house. The third and perhaps most significant meaning relates to a person's ability to initiate and organize work in preparation for "social-climbing" feasts. The second part of the document is a detailed, day-by-day account of the preparations for one such feast.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Mutual aid
- Status, role, and prestige
- Community heads
- Visiting and hospitality
- Status, role, and prestige
- Manipulative mobility
- Downward mobility
- Community structure
- Inter-community relations
- 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
- essay
- 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
- By Douglas L. Oliver
- Peabody Expedition to Bougainville, Solomon Islands
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 38)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 49010695
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Siuai (Papuan people)