article
Atchin twenty years ago
Geographical journal • 88 • Published In 1936 • Pages: 342-351
By: Layard, J. (John).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is by an ethnologist who later wrote the basic source on the Malekulans (see 1: Layard, this file). The first half of the article is a brief culture summary of the Small Islands. The second half of the article deals with recent changes in the culture of the Islands due to the influence of Western contact.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Sociocultural trends
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Malekula
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- 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
- James R. Leary ; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1914-1915
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Atchin Island off the northeast coast of Malekula, Vanuatu
- NotesAdditional notes
- John W. Layard
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 351)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 28017564
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Malekula (Vanuatu)