Question | Response | Source |
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Pre-Austronesian population | Absent: No evidence of human occupation prior to Austronesian settlement | Bellwood 1995: 109 |
Christian influence on supernatural belief | No evidence of influence but in a region where contact is likely (No evidence of Christian influence on supernatural belief, but culture is known to have had (or is likely to have had) contact with Christian societies at or prior to the time focus in question.) | |
Hindu / Buddhist influence on supernatural belief | No evidence of influence and not in region of known contact (No evidence of Hindu / Buddhist influence on supernatural belief, and culture is unlikely to have had contact with Hindu or Buddhist societies at or prior to to the time focus in question.) | Cribb 2000: Map 2.21 |
(Low) contact with other societies (SCCS v 787) | Frequent, through trade, warfare, travel, etc. (e.g. yearly or most years) | Douglas 1970: 190 |
Islamic influence on supernatural belief | No evidence of influence and not in region of known contact (No evidence of Islamic influence on supernatural belief, and culture is unlikely to have had contact with Islamic societies at or prior to the time focus in question.) | Cribb 2000: Map 2.23 |
Distance to closest landmass inhabited by a different culture (km) | 30.8 | Calculator 2014; of New Caledonia) 2014; Lambert 1900: 81 |
Distance to nearest continent (km) | 1260 | Calculator 2014 |
Question | Response | Source |
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Longitude of culture’s location (°) | 163.6 | 2014; Frazer 1913: 325 |
Latitude of culture’s location (°) | -19.7 | 2014; Frazer 1913: 325 |
Question | Response | Source |
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Number of islands inhabited by culture | Two | Lambert 1900: 81 |
Question | Response | Source |
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Island type (island with largest culture population or largest island if unknown) | Continental island (an island situated on a continental shelf, e.g. Taiwan) | Murienne et al. 2005: 2 |
Maximum elevation (meters) | 283 | Dubois 1985: 7 |
Island Size (km²) | 55.6 | Dubois 1985: 7 |
Question | Response | Source |
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Estimate of culture population size at relevant time focus | 700 | Dubois 1985: 9 |
Estimated population of largest political community | 100-999 | Lambert 1900: 81; Dubois 1985: 9 |
Question | Response | Source |
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(No) internal warfare (between communities of the same society) (SCCS v 773) | Rare or never | Douglas 1970: 190; Dubois 1985: 17 |
(No) external warfare (with other societies) (SCCS v 774) | Frequent, occurring at least yearly | Douglas 1970; Dubois 1985: 17 |
Question | Response | Source |
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Metalworking | Absent | Bellwood et al. 1975 |
Question | Response | Source |
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Animal husbandry as a source of food | Absent | Lambert 1900: 204; Rozier 1990: 77 |
Land-based hunting performed by individuals | Absent | Lambert 1900 |
Land-based gathering | Absent | Lambert 1900: 204-215 |
Land-based hunting performed by one or more groups | Absent | Lambert 1900: 204 |
Agriculture / Horticulture | Principal (more important than any other source of food) | Lambert 1900: 204; Rozier 1990: 77; Frazer 1913: 339 |
Question | Response | Source |
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Water-based gathering | Medium | Lambert 1900: 204 |
Fishing and water-based hunting performed by one or more groups | Major | Lambert 1900: 205-211 |
Fishing and water-based hunting performed by individuals | Major | Lambert 1900: 205-211 |
Question | Response | Source |
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Trade / wage labour as a source of food | Absent | Lambert 1900: 204-215 |
Question | Response | Source |
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Adoption of a world religion | Present and predominant (At one time or another during the post-contact period, at least 75% of the indigenous population practiced a world religion.) | |
Resident missionary involvement in conversion process | Present, and from non-Austronesian societies (Resident foreign missionaries, at least one of whom was from a non-Austronesian society, played an important role in the conversion process.) | Frazer 1913: 325 |
Question | Response | Source |
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Language shift | Medium (The indigenous language remained an important means of communication for the duration of the post-contact period, but at one time or another the indigenous population used a non-indigenous language to roughly the same extent.) | Eberhard et al. (eds.) 2020 |
Foreign education systems | High (At one time or another during the post-contact period over 75% of children received some at least a basic non-indigenous education.) | Agency 2013 |
Foreign government systems | Present, and of high importance (At one time or another during the post-contact period the culture was subject to a foreign government system that controlled most important decisions.) |
Question | Response | Source |
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Loss of autonomy during postcontact period | High (On at least one occasion during the post-contact period, the culture came under the political dominance of a foreign power, and this event resulted in considerable loss of autonomy.) | |
Nature of loss of autonomy – voluntary vs. forced | Partly voluntary (e.g. Autonomy was ceded voluntarily but under duress; some communities ceded their autonomy voluntarily but others were forced to do so by an foreign power.) |