Book
Contributions to the demographic study of Easter Island
Bernice P. Bishop Museum • 11 (12) • Published In 1935 • Pages: 1-9
By: Drapkin, Israel.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Written by a physician, this report provides a brief demographic profile of the native population of Easter Island, including a breakdown of population by age, sex and racial origins. Limited information is given on age at marriage, illegitimacy, illiteracy, and mortality rates.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Racial identification
- Demography
- History
- Writing
- Regulation of marriage
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Rapa Nui
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- 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.
- Physician
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1934-1935
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1886-1935
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Easter Island, Valparaíso, Chile
- NotesAdditional notes
- I. Drapkin
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Easter Island