book chapter
Ifaluk: a South Sea culture
Pacific Science Board, National Research Council • Washington • Published In 1949 • Pages:
By: Spiro, Melford E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In addition to general cultural information this source contains considerable data on child training and many of the author's interpretations of Ifalik personality.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Fauna
- Flora
- Descriptive somatology
- Drives and emotions
- 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
- Sexuality
- Sexual intercourse
- Techniques of socialization
- Sex training
- 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
- William P. Mangin ; 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
- 1947-1948
- 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
- Melford E. Spiro
- This document consists of excerpts
- Unpublished manuscript submitted as a final report, Coordinated Investigation of Micronesian Anthropology
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Caroline Islands--Social life and customs/Micronesians--Social life and customs