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
Asboe, Walter
Title:
Disposal of the dead in Tibet
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Man -- Vol. 32
Published By: Original publisher
Man -- Vol. 32
London: The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great
Britain and Ireland. 1932. 66-67 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
By Rev. Walter Asboe
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2019. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Tibetans (AJ01)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
76*;
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses the various ways in which the dead
were disposed of in Tibet, the activities of the mourners, and the ceremonies which follow
the funeral. Included also is the Tibetan rationale for these customs and a comparison with
the customs of Western Tibet.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
13
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.
aj01-013
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:
The material is indexed mainly for Tibet AJ01;
references to Western Tibet, however, will be found in W. Tibetans AJ04
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
Missionary-3
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Ben Zimmerman ; 1955
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)
Tibet
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Tibet (China)
