Book

Social change in Tikopia

The Macmillan CompanyNew York, N.y.Published In 1959 • Pages:

By: Firth, Raymond.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph is a restudy of Tikopia a generation after Firth's first field work there. The book covers two major topics. The first of these topics is the adjustment the community made to a famine while Firth was there in 1952. The second major topic is the changes that occurred in Tikopia as a result of trade, government and missionary activity, emigration of labor, and other contacts with Western culture.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Acculturation and culture contact
Sociocultural trends
Disasters
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Tikopia
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
1995
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.
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
James R. Leary
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1952-1953
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1928, 1952
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Tikopia Island, Solomon Islands
NotesAdditional notes
[by] Raymond Firth
Includes index
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Tikopia (Solomon Islands people)