Book
We, the Tikopia: a sociological study of kinship in primitive Polynesia
George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. • London, England • Published In 1936 • Pages:
By: Firth, Raymond.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an analysis of the importance of kinship in the regulation of Tikopia life. The interpenetration of kinship with other aspects of culture is pointed out most clearly by the author in his evaluation of the Tikopia regulation of land ownership, sex, and marriage, in the economics of gift-giving, and in the rites associated with initiation and death. Personal relationships and patterns of behavior between members of families and kindred groups are given close attention. Co-operative activities following kinship lines are explained, and the whole economy of the island is shown to be tied up with kinship obligations in mutual aid and reciprocal gift exchange.| Firth, a student of Malinowski, was at the time of the publication of this book a Reader in Anthropology at the University of London. He spent twelve months on Tikopia, during the years 1928-29.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Kinship
- Kin groups
- 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
- Alice McCloskey
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1928-29
- 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 ; with a preface by Bronislaw Malinowski
- A glossary is in Glossary (104); Not all native terms for kinship have been excerpted for this category. Others may be found in the chapter The Language of Kinship, pp. 235-283; Although there are no true moieties, the districts of Faea and Raveŋa perform many of the functions of moieties, and information on them has been filed in category 616
- Several non-text pages and pp. 601-605 are not included
- Bibliography: p. 282.|Includes index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tikopia (Solomon Islands peoples)