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Crime and criminal actions in the Palau Islandsessay 2009 • Kubary, J. S. (Jan Stanislaw)
Belau • Oceania > Micronesia
This document discusses Belauan culture and society as observed by the author in the early 1880s. Themes covered include traditional history, status and role of chiefs, kinship stem, family life, gender and sexuality, property inheritance, and crime ...The Carolines Island Yap or Guap, according to the reports of Alfred Tetens and Johann Kubaryarticle 1873 • Tetens, Alfred & Kubary, J. S. (Jan Stanislaw)
Yapese • Oceania > Micronesia
Dr. E. Gräffe prepared this article from reports by Tetens and Kubary. Also included is a short grammar of the Yap language and a vocabulary prepared by J.T. Blohm, an agent for a German trading firm. (Approximately one-third of the article deals wit...