Adriani, Nicolaus, 1865-1926. The Bare'e-speaking Toradja of central Celebes (the East Toradja): first volume

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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records Adriani, Nicolaus, 1865-1926 Kruijt, Albertus Christiaan, 1869-1949

Title: The Bare'e-speaking Toradja of central Celebes (the East Toradja): first volume

Published By: Original publisher Amsterdam: Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij. 1950. HRAF MS: 13, 714 p. [original: 12, 478 p.]

By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication N. Adriani and Albert C. Kruyt

HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.: Human Relations Area Files, 1997. Computer File

Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis. Eastern Toraja (OG11)

Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF

Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document This is the first of a series of three volumes by Adriani and Kruyt dealing with the general ethnography of the Eastern Toraja of central Celebes. This volume deals with general information on the land and the people of central Celebes, on Toraja society, the village, house and temple construction, warfare, justice, cosmology and the soul. The document contains detailed and well rounded data on the topics of warfare, concepts of justice and their application, house construction, cosmology and beliefs about the soul, both prior to and subsequent to death. These data were collected by the authors not only during their own field work but also from information contained in other works.

Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents 2

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. og11-002

Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs. Monograph

Language: Language that the document is written in English

Note: Translation of: [De Bare'e sprekende Toradjas van Midden-Celebes (de Oost-Toradjas) eerste deel]|The original Dutch text is not included Translated for the HRAF files by Jenni Karding Moulton

Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document 1892-1932

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 Linguists, Missionaries-5

Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection. John Beierle ; Irving Rosenthal ; 1969-1971

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) Celebes, Indonesia

LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings Toraja (Indonesian people)