Book
Lau Islands, Fiji
Bernice P. Bishop Museum • (62) • Published In 1929 • Pages: 240 , 4 plates
By: Hocart, Arthur Maurice.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Hocart spent four years in the Fiji Islands as the headmaster of a native school in Lakemba, the chief island of the Lau group. This book is a synthesis of native accounts regarding customs and tradition as well as a record of the author's own observations. The description of the native material culture such as food, clothing, shelter, agriculture, fishing and boat building is adequate. There are also data related to the kinship system, political organization, social structure, games and ceremonies, life cycle, medical care, witchcraft, religious beliefs, and legends.
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Lau Fijians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Polynesia
- 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.
- Educator
- 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
- Robert Lee ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1920
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1920
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lau Islands, Fiji
- NotesAdditional notes
- by A. M. Hocart
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 241)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Fijians