book chapter
A Psychotic personality in the South Seas
Psychiatry • 13 (2) • Published In 1950 • Pages: 189-204
By: Spiro, Melford E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is one of the few available accounts of a psychotic from a pre-literate society. It contains several interviews from the author's field notes as well as an interesting interpretation of the case.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Fauna
- Descriptive somatology
- Drives and emotions
- Life history materials
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Fishing
- Tillage
- Diet
- Personal grooming
- Dwellings
- Settlement patterns
- Shipbuilding
- Mercantile business
- Travel
- Gender status
- Visiting and hospitality
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- Theory of disease
- Suicide
- Sexuality
- General sex restrictions
- 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
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Caroline Islands--Social life and customs/Micronesians--Social life and customs