Book
Social organization of Manua
The Museum • (76) • Published In 1930 • Pages: ii, 218
By: Mead, Margaret.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is primarily an account of the socio-political organization of Manua, including detailed descriptions of the kinship system and rank and chieftainship. Materials on economic organization and religion are more briefly presented. Emphasis is placed upon the role of chiefs in the community and the district. Manuan traits are frequently compared with equivalent traits of Tutuila, Western Samoa, other Polynesian cultures, and Melanesia. The author did a limited amount of field work in Tutuila, but most of her time was spent in the Manuan group of islands. Of her seven months in Manua, Mead spent six in three villages on the island of Tau. In addition to her own first hand observations, Mead makes extensive use of the literature on Samoa and Oceania as a whole.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Kin relationships
- Community structure
- Status, role, and prestige
- Community heads
- Ethnosociology
- Territorial hierarchy
- Community councils
- Diet
- Visiting and hospitality
- Extended families
- Social relationships and groups
- Family relationships
- Informal in-group justice
- Real property
- Settlement patterns
- Etiquette
- Ethnopsychology
- Social personality
- Premarital sex relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Samoans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- 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
- William W. Stein ; 1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1926-1927
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1920-1930
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Samoa
- NotesAdditional notes
- Margaret Mead
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-218)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 31023793
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tubuai (French Polynesia)/Samoa