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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Firth, Raymond, 1901-2002
Title:
Economics and ritual in sago extraction in Tikopia
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Mankind -- Vol. 4
Published By: Original publisher
Mankind -- Vol. 4
1950. 131-143 p., plate
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
[by] Raymond Firth
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 1995. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Tikopia (OT11)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Food preparation (252);
Organized ceremonial (796);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a description of the preparation of sago and
related ritual. A brief discussion of 'Sago in the Western Pacific' is included. Firth's
conclusions relates sago ritual to the more general function of ritual in the integration
of Tikopia society.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
15
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.
ot11-015
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.
W.W. Stein
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)
Tikopia Island, Solomon Islands
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Tikopia (Solomon Islands peoples)
