book chapter
The economic organization of the Marshall Islanders
U.S. Commercial Company, Economic Survey • Honolulu • Published In 1947 • Pages:
By: Mason, Leonard.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source, written by a professional ethnologist, deals with the economic situation of the Marshall Islanders, both historically and in the present day. Heavy emphasis is placed on the modern economic activities. A rounded description is given of the islands and cultural background, followed by detailed discussions of property rights, labor, foreign trade, and the processing and manufacture of items for foreign trade. Descriptions are included of modern native industries and the products involved. Pp. 111-145, and an appendix have been omitted from the files, since the former deals with recommendations for action and the latter deals with a native land transfer legal document.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Labor supply and employment
- Fishing
- Extended families
- Kindreds and ramages
- Adoption
- Kinship terminology
- Community heads
- Settlement patterns
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- Visiting and hospitality
- Real property
- Tillage
- Taxation and public income
- Individual enterprise
- Cooperative organization
- Classes
- Alcoholic beverages
- Food preparation
- External trade
- Acculturation and culture contact
- 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 chapter
- 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
- James R. Leary ; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1946
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1914
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Marshall Islands
- NotesAdditional notes
- Leonard E. Mason
- Unpublished manuscript submitted as a report
- Omitted from the File: pages 111-145
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Marshallese