Book
Primitive Polynesian economy
George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. • London, England • Published In 1939 • Pages:
By: Firth, Raymond.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a complete and detailed analysis of the economic system in Tikopia. Principles of land ownership, rules for gift-giving on ceremonial occasions and in payment for work, and kinship obligations governing mutual aid are discussed in detail. Since the Tikopia have no system of price, value, etc., corresponding to our economic concepts of them, and no competitive barganing, their economic principles are those which best serve ritual and kinship obligations. The role of the chiefs in productive and ritual activities is given full attention, and principles of distribution, payment, and accumulation of goods are well covered.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Production and supply
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tikopia
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- 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
- Philip Dark
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1928-1929
- 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)
- Tikopia Island, Solomon Islands
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Raymond Firth
- Information on the sib chiefs has been filed in category 622. For the role of the sib chief in the production and consumption of of economic resources see category 116, pp. 189-236.
- Bibliography: p. 381.|Includes index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tikopia (Solomon Islands peoples)