Book
Majuro: a village in the Marshall Islands
Chicago Natural History Museum • 39 • Published In 1949 • Pages: 266
By: Spoehr, Alexander.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author, while on active duty with the Navy during World War II, spent six months in the Marshall Islands. The nature of his duty allowed considerable mobility so that he became thoroughly versed in the physical characteristics of the Marshall atolls and particularly with Majuro. Spoehr returned to Majuro in 1947 as a civilian and conducted ethnological work for three and one half months. This report is a general ethnography emphasizing culture change and the territorial basis of Majuro social organization.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Household
- Lineages
- Division of labor by gender
- Settlement patterns
- Real property
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Mutual aid
- Political parties
- Rest days and holidays
- Ethnic stratification
- Community heads
- Sociocultural trends
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Marshallese
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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
- 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
- Eldon Johnson ; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1947
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1945-1949
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Majuro, Marshall Islands
- NotesAdditional notes
- Alexander Spoehr
- This document consists of excerpts
- The source has been excerpted in full; all charts, maps, and tables have been reproduced. All photographs referred to in the text appear in the Visual File with the exception of Figs. 15, 28, 30, 32, and 35, which have been sketched from the text photographs and are reproduced here. Omitted page numbers in the text indicate pages that contain photographs or charts.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-262)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 50000872
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Marshallese
- Ethnology--Marshall Islands
- Majuro (Marshall Islands)