Book
Studies of Okinawan village life
Pacific Science Board, National Research Council • Washington D.C. • Published In 1953 • Pages: [ia-e] ii, 382
By: Glacken, Clarence J..
Abstract
This work is based primarily upon six months of field work in three sample villages chosen as examples of the primary types of economies -- agriculture, fishing, stonecutting, and forestry. The description is comprehensive and detailed. In addition to the focus on person-land relationships, there is very detailed information on topics such as economic organization, kinship (including kinship terminology), marriage, family life, socialization patterns, formal education, religion, festivals, funerals and mourning, and the community. There is a lenghty discussion of what is called the 'family system,' which includes the entire network of kin groups. The structuring of the patrilineal kin groups remains ambiguous, although it may be suggested that they seem to constitute a segmentary lineage system.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Types
- Ethnologist
- Geographer
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Robert O. Lagacé ; 1962
- Field Date
- 1951-1952
- Coverage Date
- prehistory -1952
- Coverage Place
- villages of Hanashiro, Minatogawa, and Matsuda, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, Japan
- Notes
- [by] Clarence J. Glacken
- Includes bibliography
- LCSH
- Okinawa