Book
Kapauku Papuan economy
Dept. of Anthropology, Yale University • New Haven, Conn. • Published In 1963 • Pages: 502 , plates
By: Pospisil, Leopold J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph presents a structural-functionl quantitative analysis of Kapauku economy based on the author's investigation of the sublineage of Ijaaj-Enona, the members of which live in one large community called Botukebo, located in West Irian. The data gathered from this study are then compared to other Kapauku groups studied by the author to give a general picture of the whole economy. In all, the author spent eighteen months in the field, with eight of these being spent in the study of Botukebo. This book presents information on the author's methodology, an analysis of Botukebo social structure, a demographic and residential picture of the community of Botukebo, an elaborate description of agricultural techniques, principles of land tenure and the organization of labor, details of animal husbandry (with emphasis on the raising of pigs), and on fishing, hunting, gathering and the manufacture of various artifacts. An additional section of interest concerned with distribution examines the use of shell money and procedures of gift, barter, sale, credit operations and the inheritance of property. After a section on consumption, the study concludes with an analysis of Kapauku economic wealth and a comprehensive summary of the main characteristics of the Kapauku economy. The author, a professional anthropologist, whose primary interest lies in the field of 'primitive' law, was financed in his field work by grants from the Ford Foundation (research period 1954-1955), the American Philisophical Society and the Social Science Research Council (for the research period of 1959).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Domesticated animals
- Tillage
- Real property
- Buying and selling
- Production and supply
- Accumulation of wealth
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kapauku
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Melanesia
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1965-1968
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1954-1955, 1959
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1954-1959
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kamu Valley, central Highlands, Irian Jaya, Indonesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Leopold Pospisil
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 406-409.) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 63006002
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kapauku (New Guinea people)