book chapter
A journal of a voyage made in His Majesty's sloop RESOLUTION May 16th 1777
. The voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780 • (2) • Published In 1967 • Pages: 860-966
By: Anderson, William.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is the journal of the surgeon aboard the RESOLUTION, one of the ships of Captain James Cook. The journal covers approximately two months in 1777 spent at Tonga, principally at the islands of Tongatapu, Nomuka, and Eua. Anderson seems to have been a very careful and accurate observer. In addition to the accounts of daily activities, there are quite detailed observations on a number of topics, such as geography, flora, fauna, physical anthropology, diseases, dress, domestic life, architecture, canoes, material culture, food, relationships between the sexes, funeral customs, religion, political structure, international relations, and language.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Diet
- External trade
- Athletic sports
- Music
- Dance
- Districts
- Chief executive
- Executive household
- External relations
- 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
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Physician
- Explorer
- 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
- Marlene Martin; 1978
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1777
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1777
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Islands of Tongatapu, Nomuka, and Eua, Tonga
- NotesAdditional notes
- William Anderson
- Although this document is concerned with the period before 1800, the subject HISTORY (175) was not used in the indexing
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 56006658
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tongans