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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Austen, Leo
Title:
The Trobriand Islands of Papua
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
The Australian geographer -- Vol. 3, no. 2
Published By: Original publisher
The Australian geographer -- Vol. 3, no. 2
1936. 10-22 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
Geography (130);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article contains information on the geographical
features of the Trobriand Islands. Climate, soils, topography, flora and fauna are
discussed in some detail. The history of European contacts with the Trobrianders is
presented.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
22
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.
ol06-022
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.
Frank W. Moore
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)
Papua New Guinea
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Trobriand Islanders
