The shelves of the record

• 3 works Africa The African fieldwork shelf — kingdoms, clans, and cults of the continent recorded by the missionaries and ethnographers
• 2 works Asia The Asian fieldwork shelf — island, forest, and village societies of South and East Asia recorded by the ethnographers w
• 8 works Oceania & Australia The Pacific island and Australian fieldwork shelf — kula voyages, kinship, and ritual recorded by the ethnographers who
• 3 works Siberia & the Arctic The circumpolar shelf — shamanism, reindeer peoples, and the ethnography of Siberia and the Arctic rim.
• 7 works The Americas North, Central, and South American fieldwork — the ethnographies and native texts recorded among the peoples of the Amer
• 26 works Theory & Comparative The theoretical and comparative works — the frameworks the fieldworkers argued with.