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Place and the politics of marriage: the Mewun of Malekula, New Hebrides/Vanuaaku
University Microfilms International • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 2000 • Pages:
By: Larcom, Joan Clayton.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This dissertation examines the effects of colonization and missionization on Mewun society. Larcom discusses the nature of the changes brought to bear on the Mewun by missionaries and others, particularly in regard to transformations of the marriage system, and their response to such changes. This document also contains much information on kinship, fertility, demography, the NIMANGI age grade society, the importance of pigs in the society, the status of women, and sister exchange in marriage.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Domesticated animals
- Real property
- Age stratification
- Social relationships and groups
- Sodalities
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Mode of marriage
- Kinship terminology
- Lineages
- Clans
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Malekula
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Melanesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1973-1974 (18 months)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- late nineteenth century - 1974
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mewun, southwestern Malekula, Vanuatu
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Joan Clayton Larcom
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Stanford University, 1980
- UM8024693
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-263)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Malekula (Vanuatu)