Publication Information The main body of the Publication Information page contains all the metadata that HRAF holds for that document.
Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978
Title:
Melanesian middlemen
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Natural history -- vol. 30
Published By: Original publisher
Natural history -- vol. 30
New York, N.Y.: American Museum of Natural History. 1930.
115-130 p. ill.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Margaret Mead
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2005. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Manus (OM06)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Cultural participation (184);
Dwellings (342);
Settlement patterns (361);
Borrowing and lending (426);
Gift giving (431);
Medium of exchange (436);
Exchange transactions (437);
Internal trade (438);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source deals mainly with the trade relations of the
Manus and neighboring Usiai and Matankor peoples. Also discussed are: the articles traded,
the place of money (i.e., shell money and dogs' teeth) and barter in exchange transactions,
and the influence of ceremonial payments between families upon trade.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
7
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.
om06-007
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
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1928-1929
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.
Joan Steffens ; 1963
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1928-1929
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Admiralty Islands, Papua New Guinea
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Manus (Papua New Guinea people)
