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The Gilbert Islands: micro-individualism
Land tenure in the Pacific • Melbourne • Published In 1971 • Pages: 146-171
By: Lambert, Bernd.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document discusses land tenure in the Makin and Butaritari atolls as observed both in the pre-contact period and during the post-1922 period following the introduction of privatization by colonial officials. The focus is on the ways the government legislated privatization of land and the changes in social organization that followed, including class relations, residence pattern, inheritance rules, and gender relations.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Topography and geology
- Real property
- Inheritance
- Property system
- Property in movables
- Family relationships
- Kindreds and ramages
- Kin relationships
- External relations
- Government regulation
- Classes
- Community heads
- Inter-community relations
- Acculturation and culture contact
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kiribati
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2018
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Micronesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2016
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1959-1961
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1840-1961
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kiribati (Gilbert) Islands, Republic of Kiribati
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Bernd Lambert
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-171)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 71599338
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kiribati