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The economic activities of a Gilbertese chief
Political anthropology • Chicago • Published In 1966 • Pages: 155-172
By: Lambert, Bernd.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document discusses the economic activities of Kiribati chiefs. In addition to the culturally expected duty of collecting valued foodstuffs for redistribution, chiefs played other roles. The most important included sponsoring public projects (notably canoe building) and facilitating external trade. In doing so, chiefs accumulated wealth and prestige greater than that of ordinary people.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Chief executive
- Community heads
- Status, role, and prestige
- Accumulation of wealth
- External trade
- Gift giving
- Taxation and public income
- Acculturation and culture contact
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kiribati
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2018
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Micronesia
- 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.
- Anthropologist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2016
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1959-1961
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1860-1961
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Makin and Butaritari, Northern Kiribati Islands, Republic of Kiribati
- NotesAdditional notes
- Berndt Lambert
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-172)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 66015210
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kiribati