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The Koreans and their culturebook chapter 1951 • Osgood, Cornelius
Korea • Asia > East Asia
This book is the first work on Korea by a professional ethnographer. Its five parts consist first of a study of a typical Korean farming village on the island of Kanghwa. The data on this village were recorded by observation and from local informants...Ingalik material cultureBook 1970 • Osgood, Cornelius
Ingalik • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
In this one of three volumes reconstructing traditional Ingalik culture and society back to first documented contact, Osgood classifies and analyzes more than three hundred Ingalik material culture items collected during his mid-1930s fieldwork, emph...Ingalik social cultureBook 1958 • Osgood, Cornelius
Ingalik • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
In this one of three volumes reconstructing traditional Ingalik culture and society, Osgood draws on his mid-1930s fieldwork documenting multiple aspects of daily life and the life cycle, recreation and ritual, family life, interpersonal relations, a...Ingalik mental cultureBook 1959 • Osgood, Cornelius
Ingalik • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
In this one of three volumes reconstructing traditional Ingalik culture and society, Ogood supplements his mid-1930s fieldwork with a brief 1956 visit to focus on mental culture, defined as "ideas concerning human beings that have been communicated t...