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Privilege ceremonials in Tikopia: a further note

Oceania26Published In 1955 • Pages: 1-13

By: Firth, Raymond.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Firth intended this article to be an addition to an article he wrote four years earlier (14: Firth. Privilege Ceremonials in Tikopia). In this second account of 'privilege ceremonials,' Firth adds material gathered during his second field trip to Tikopia. Comparisons are made between the functions of these rites in 1929 and in 1952. Firth includes a description of one ceremony which was not dealt with in the earlier article.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Organized ceremonial
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
article
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
W.W. Stein
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1928-1929, 1952
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1929, 1952
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
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Tikopia (Solomon Islands peoples)