Book

Southern Lau, Fiji: an ethnography

Bernice P. Bishop Museum (162)Published In 1940 • Pages: iv, 228 , 5 plates

By: Thompson, Laura.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph focuses on social structure, and to a lesser extent, religion. Portions of the work deal with the life cycle, games, housing and other aspects of material culture, geography, and archaeology. A section of the work by a field assistant, Bernard Tueting, records subsistence patterns.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Kin groups
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.
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 ; 1959
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1933-1934
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
not specified
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 Laura Thompson
Includes bibliographical references (p. 244)
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Fijians