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Affiliations through work in Marbial, Haiti
Primitive man : quarterly bulletin of the Catholic Anthropological Conference • 25 (1-2) • Published In 1952 • Pages: 1-22
By: Métraux, Alfred.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper discusses the work relationships deriving from agriculture as one aspect of interpersonal relationships among the people of Marbial in southern Haiti. It shows that the basic economic unit in Marbial is the household consisting of a man, his wife and their children, sometimes other children of husband or wife, occasionally adopted children or indigent relatives, and possibly servants who work mainly for their keep. There are also many traditional institutions through which households promoted mutual support and cooperation among themselves. The most important of these included ron (working together in rotation on the field of each member) and kobit (obtaining extra hand in return for festive food and/or later payment in labor).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Cultural identity and pride
- Tillage
- Cereal agriculture
- Family relationships
- Real property
- Division of labor by gender
- Labor supply and employment
- Cooperative organization
- Mutual aid
- Labor and leisure
- Medium of exchange
- Exchange transactions
- Eating
- Labor relations
- Extended families
- Musical and theatrical productions
- Spectacles
- Social relationships and groups
- Sodalities
- Music
- Property offenses
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Haitians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Caribbean
- 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.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1930-1952
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Marbial, southern Haiti
- NotesAdditional notes
- Rhoda Métraux
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 99111903
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Haitians