essay
Land tenure in northeast Siuai, southern Bougainville, Solomon Islands
Studies in the anthropology of Bougainville, Solomon Islands • 29 (4) • Published In 1949 • Pages: 97
By: Oliver, Douglas L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study attempts to explain the complicated relationship of Siwais to their land. Land is owned by clans and matrilineages. Nevertheless, non-lineage members can have access to land depending on residence. Various court cases over land disputes are examined to reveal when and where rights of ownership and use are respected. The kinship structure of households and hamlets are also examined for how they relate to land ownership and use, and to the use of magical sanctions against trespassing.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Tillage
- Vegetable production
- Land use
- Real property
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Residence
- Informal in-group justice
- Inter-community relations
- Property offenses
- Nonfulfillment of obligations
- 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
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 97)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 49010695
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Siuai (Papuan people)