Book
Notes d'ethnologie néo-calédonienne
Institut d'ethnologie • Paris • Published In 1930 • Pages: viii, 340
By: Leenhardt, Maurice.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author was a French missionary who lived in New Caledonia for twenty-four years, spending the most time among the Ajië, in Houaïlou and Canala. The volume focuses on clans, feasting, gifting, ghosts, ancestral spirits, magic, and virtue.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Vegetable production
- Dwellings
- Grounds
- Settlement patterns
- Gift giving
- Visiting and hospitality
- Sorcery
- Eschatology
- Spirits and gods
- Cult of the dead
- Magic
- Ethnogeography
- Ethnopsychology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kanak
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- 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; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1903-1926
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1865-1926
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Houaïlou, Canala, Hienghéne, Kouaoua, and Poya, North Province, and Bourail, South Province, New Caledonia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Maurice Leenhardt
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 31007938
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ethnology--New Caledonia