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Adoption by rank on Ifalukarticle 1988 • Betzig, Laura L.
Woleai Region • Oceania > Micronesia
This article examines relations between adoption and rank based on statistical comparison of adaptive patterns among four categories of people in Ifaluk, namely; chiefs, successors, salaried men and low-status men. It shows that adoption helps effect...Redistributionessay 1988 • Betzig, Laura L.
Woleai Region • Oceania > Micronesia
This article argues that Ifaluk chiefs strategically manipulated their customarily accepted roles as redistributors of collectively pooled resources to promote their own personal self-interests in the form of control over more food and producing more...Childcare on Ifalukarticle 1989 • Betzig, Laura L. et al.
Woleai Region • Oceania > Micronesia
This articles assesses the value of coopeative childcare on Ifaluk based on demovraphic and behavioral data obtained through census and observation. Results suggest that women on Ifaluk, like women in other traditional cultures, might augment their f...