Book
Both sides of Buka Passage: an ethnographic study of social, sexual, and economic questions in the north-western Solomon Islands
Clarendon Press • Oxford • Published In 1935 • Pages:
By: Blackwood, Beatrice.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a comprehensive ethnographic study of the Kurtatchi community on the northeastern coast of Bougainville, and of the peoples of the Buka Passage in general. Because the original research design focused on issues of sex, there is notable detail regarding marriage and sex, pregnancy and childbirth, childhood and adolescent activities, and puberty rites. There are also descriptions of the physical environment, village and kinship organization, economic pursuits, arts and crafts, food, medicine, religious beliefs and practices. There is even a collection of dreams, with classification and discussion. Appendices include lists of kinship terms, and of useful plants.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Food quest
- Food preparation
- Diet
- Art
- Status, role, and prestige
- Classes
- Marriage
- Kinship terminology
- Clans
- Mythology
- Spirits and gods
- Revelation and divination
- Reproduction
- Adolescence, adulthood, and old age
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tinputz
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2015
- 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
- Robert Lee ; 1958
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1929-1930
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1929-1930
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- North Bougainville District, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- Beatrice Blackwood
- The author's information on 'clan' organization has been marked for category 614, 'sibs.'
- Includes bibliographic references (p.600-602)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 37004762
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ethnology--Solomon Islands
- Primitive societies
- Endogamy and exogamy
- Sex
- Kinship
- Folklore--Solomon Islands