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Fosterage in the northern Gilbert Islands
Ethnology • 3 (3) • Published In 1964 • Pages: 232-258
By: Lambert, Bernd.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document focuses on structural factors that led to widespread child adoption and fosterage in two Northern Kiribati communities. Child-giving families and kin groups typically own more land and command more political influence than child-rearers. As a consequence, it makes structural sense for them to have their children raised by the latter, who would groom them as future village heads. In return, the child-rearers received land and political protection from the powerful child-givers. The author argues that the institution has broad resemblance to asymmetrical cross-cousin marriage rules in other stratified societies.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Adoption
- Artificial kin relationships
- Family relationships
- Real property
- Techniques of socialization
- Kindreds and ramages
- Kin relationships
- Inheritance
- Status, role, and prestige
- Inter-community relations
- Community structure
- Kinship regulation of sex
- 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
- article
- 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.
- 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
- 1950-1963
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Makin and Butaritari, Northern Kiribati Islands, Republic of Kiribati
- NotesAdditional notes
- Bernd Lambert
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 258)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64005713
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kiribati