book chapter
The people of Ifalik: a little-disturbed atoll
Pacific Science Board, National Research Council • Washington • Published In 1949 • Pages:
By: Burrows, Edwin G. (Edwin Grant).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Mr. Burrows is a competent ethnographer and has had wide experience in field work on many Pacific Islands-as well as Ifalik.This book contains an excellent descriptive account of the culture of a relatively unacculturated society. It covers in detail technology, house-building, canoe-building, navigation, social structure, economics, government, foreign relations, religion and ethics. Lists are given of flora, fauna, and stars (used in navigation) with native and scientific identification.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Fauna
- Flora
- Descriptive somatology
- Population
- Traditional history
- Fishing
- Tillage
- Diet
- Personal grooming
- Dwellings
- Settlement patterns
- Shipbuilding
- Mercantile business
- Travel
- Gender status
- Visiting and hospitality
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- Community structure
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Avoidance and taboo
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Woleai Region
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- book chapter
- 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
- Katherine Schlesinger ; 1950-1956 ; Teferi A. Adem 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1947-1948
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1948
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ifaluk, Woleai Region, Federated States of Micronesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Edwin Grant Burrows
- This document consists of excerpts
- Unpublished manuscript submitted as a final report, Coordinated Investigation of Micronesian Anthropology
- Photographs not included
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-246)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ifaluk Atoll (Micronesia)/Caroline Islands--Social life and customs/Micronesians--Social life and customs