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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Austen, Leo
Title:
The seasonal gardening calendar of Kiriwina, Trobriand
Islands
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Oceania -- Vol. 9
Published By: Original publisher
Oceania -- Vol. 9
1939. 237-253 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
[by] Leo Austen
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.
Trobriands (OL06)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Tillage (241);
Ordering of time (805);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article contains a discussion of the Trobriand method
of ordering time and its relationship to gardening. The inefficiency of Trobriand
time-reckoning for horticultural purposes is clearly brought out. Information on the
astronomical knowledge of the islanders is also included. Austen was a resident magistrate
and also held a degree in anthropology.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
14
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.
ol06-014
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
1931-1935
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
Government Official-5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Arthur Fields
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1931-1935
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Kiriwina Island, Papua New Guinea
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Trobriand Islanders
