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Succession to chieftainship in Tikopia
Oceania • 30 • Published In 1960 • Pages: 161-180
By: Firth, Raymond.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an intensive study of the institution of chieftainship and its importance to the Tikopia political system and religion. Firth discusses qualities desired for elevation to chieftainship, principles of succession, and the actual mechanism of election to this high office in Tikopia.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community heads
- 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
- John Beierle
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1928, 1952
- 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
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tikopia (Solomon Islands people)