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Notes on the Marshall Islands
Oceania • 13 • Published In 1943 • Pages: 1-23
By: Wedgwood, Camilla H. (Camilla Hildegarde).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The data in this article were gathered from a native Marshallese woman while she was head teacher of Orro Girls' School on Nauru Island. The author presents a general picture of the social organization of the Marshall Islands. Kinship terminology and behavior is also covered along with unusually detailed information on the Djara bond of artificial kinship developed usually between close friends. Ritual life of Marshallese women includes puberty ceremonies of common and noble girls, betrothal and marriage, pregnancy and birth, and rites of early childhood. Although the information is secondary in the sense it was gathered from an informant who had been away from her native culture for some years, the presentation is noteworthy in its detailed account from the viewpoint of the Marshallese woman.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Regulation of marriage
- Kindreds and ramages
- Kinship terminology
- Siblings-in-law
- Personal names
- Homosexuality
- Family relationships
- Friendships
- Artificial kin relationships
- Sex and marital offenses
- Age stratification
- Puberty and initiation
- Classes
- Mythology
- Polygamy
- Gender status
- 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
- article
- 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
- George R. Bedell ; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1935
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1935-1942
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Marshall Islands
- NotesAdditional notes
- Camilla H. Wedgwood
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 38017490
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Marshallese