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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Wallace, Anthony F. C.
Title:
Mentaweian social organization
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
American anthropologist -- n.s., Vol. 53
Published By: Original publisher
American anthropologist -- n.s., Vol. 53
Washington, etc.: American Anthropological Association,
etc.. 1951. 370-375 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
By Anthony F. C. Wallace
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2000. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Mentawaians (OD09)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Reviews and critiques (114);
Regulation of marriage (582);
Residence (591);
Adoption (597);
Clans (614);
Community structure (621);
Illegitimacy (848);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this document Wallace critiques Warner Muensterberger's
treatment of Mentaweian social organization and offers a reinterpretation of the basic
structure of Mentaweian society. Some relatively minor criticisms are also leveled at the
interpretations given to Mentaweian social organization by Loeb and Murdoch.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
8
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
od09-008
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Journal Article
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 375)
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is 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
Ethnologist-5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
John Beierle ; 1999
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
not specified
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
North and South Pagai, Mentawei Islands, west
of Sumatra, Indonesia
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Mentawai (Indonesian people)
