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Alternative social structures and the limits of hierarchy in the modern Kingdom of Tonga
Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde • 131 • Published In 1975 • Pages: 34-66
By: Marcus, George E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The purpose of this source is '... to examine the extent to which routine, everyday interpersonal relations within a low status group or class in a highly stratified society are in fact permeated by the same concerns with status differentiation or rank determination that characterize social relations between status groups or classes' (p. 34). Through observing commoners in the village of 'Uiha for 2+ months in th summer of 1972 during a project on the comparative study of law and conflict, the author concludes that the generalized 'concern for rank' is by no means pervasive (p. 64).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Mutual aid
- Status, role, and prestige
- Manipulative mobility
- Classes
- Social relationships and groups
- Kin relationships
- Kindreds and ramages
- Lineages
- Community structure
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tongans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2006
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Martin J. Malone; 1978
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1972
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1972
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Village of 'Uiha in the Ha'apai region, Tonga
- NotesAdditional notes
- George E. Marcus
- Categor Kindreds and Ramages ( 612) /concept of 'family estate' and for the KāINGA, or kindred
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sn 86000287
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tongans